No you didn't. But the words you used, "They were waiting for the price to go down on safety equipment", were apparently intended to sarcastically imply that people who don't have these things are stupid and cheap. Is there some other meaning to those words than what I interpreted?

My response, "then I don't want to be safe", was just as sarcastic and facetious - I'll grant you that This evidently offended you, so I apologize. That was not my intent. Of course I want to be safe too, but I just view these beacon things as overkill for normal hiking scenerios. Today's normal scenerio may turn into tomorrow's disaster, so you do have a point to make about carrying one of these beacons. And I agree if your quests take you far off the beaten path majorly into harms way. Or if you're in an avalanche area where quick location and rescue is mandatory.

But I dread the day when we all give in to being tracked down to our precise location on the planet, just to feel safe and secure. That distaste is the underlying feeling behind my sarcastic "then I don't want to be safe" and "will bodyguards be next" comments.

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