Comment on The sound of seagulls
spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s the ratio.
People will swim in the sea, even though it has corpses in it. They won’t swim in a swimming pool if it has corpses in it. It’s the corpse/water ratio that makes the difference. In your case it looks like a seagull/seaside-proximity ratio.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s also an identity and distance thing. Like, is the Baltic Sea the same, identity wise, as the Mediterranean? Even if the Baltic Sea is very large, if there was a corpse right below me in it, I wouldn’t want to swim there.