People just want to feel good about things. I swear to the devil, half the time I am doing something for an employer its just because "he wants it that way" not because its of actual logistic importance. I ammount this to be about the same.
In Toronto we have a bridge that people jumped off, but below it were cars! lol so the importance of such a bridge was much more an issue. I believe the SF bridge has water below it, if I am not mistaken. I say fuck, we don't even have to clean up the mess that way. They probably are going to land on some poor bastard now!
Sigh.. its often the people who run around desperately trying to do some righteous act of goodness to the world that cause the most trouble!!
Don't quote me on that
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Oh wait!!!
I just thought of something very interesting that seems to go against what I just said.
What if someone is in crisis, and they are lost at a particular moment, but they don't really have no future, they just think they do not, and by having the net there, we get them past that hard moment in their life. Then, maybe, they never kill themselves after that. So the net was a beautiful gesture of the people, in a moment of need, and once the moment passed, the person was able to find some love.
Also, to answer one your questions, I believe the net will be constructed in such a manner that you will not be able to climb over it. It most probably will not be just a gigantic net that you can jump in for fun. Lmao I bet people would be jumping in it all the time. The one in Toronto is constructed of steel, and it is more of a unclimable fence than a net.
Bye