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This. What a bunch of yahoos destroying an interesting natural phenomenon with fucking hammers. The video even suggests wearing eye protection so rock chips don’t hit you in the cornea, but makes no mention of damaging the very thing you find so interesting.

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At the same time, it's just a regular rock until you hit it with a hammer. If nobody ever hits those rocks with a hammer then they might as well not exist. I don't think animals, plants, trees, fungus, bacteria or the rocks themselves care if they're smashed to shards. So they're purely for human enjoyment.

why not go all the way into solipsism and declare that all other humans also don't care and are just there for your amusement?

(I can guarantee you that at the very least, the animals care a lot whether they get smashed)

The rocks are very big, very heavy, very dense. I've taken a hammer and banged the shit out of them. They didn't have a scratch. I thought the hammer was going to break. And there's a lot of them.

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