Thread: Should tourists climb Uluru?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I suggest that could be a separate topic in Current Affairs as it would be impossible to discuss properly without going political, which isn't allowed outside CA.

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Nothing stopping you starting one up there.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

.....When it comes down to it, it's just a big rock.....

That's the same as saying that a cathedral "is just another building".

If someone wandered into your house, kicked their boots off, opened the fridge and helped themselves to your beer, I reckon you'd be a tad upset.
Then you ask "what the hell you doing in my bloody house?", and they answer "well it's just a building, what you getting upset for?"

May not have any significance to them, but it sure as hell would to you......

Originally Posted by sheerluck

That's the same as saying that a cathedral "is just another building".

If someone wandered into your house, kicked their boots off, opened the fridge and helped themselves to your beer, I reckon you'd be a tad upset.
Then you ask "what the hell you doing in my bloody house?", and they answer "well it's just a building, what you getting upset for?"

May not have any significance to them, but it sure as hell would to you......

If someone did that in my house they better offer me one of my beers or there will be trouble
Well if said people want to class it as their personal house which it aint go and lock it up and put some sort of security there if not do`nt argue or sook .
Honestly a dead criminal will not tell lies or get a chance to defend them self in a court of law Now would anyone like to come break into my place and drink my beer

Originally Posted by sheerluck

That's the same as saying that a cathedral "is just another building".

If someone wandered into your house, kicked their boots off, opened the fridge and helped themselves to your beer, I reckon you'd be a tad upset.
Then you ask "what the hell you doing in my bloody house?", and they answer "well it's just a building, what you getting upset for?"

May not have any significance to them, but it sure as hell would to you......

Not quite sure it's anywhere near the same thing as such. But funny how you can actually get guided tours through most, if not all cathedrals,, one only has to ask if it's not on the tourist list. Those of notoriety are mahout tourist attractions. These are buildings that are "man made", not just part of the landscape.

Coming into "my house",, something that has been "paid for" by "me", through hard work, sweat and tears, this is an entirely different matter.

Originally Posted by sheerluck

If someone wandered into your house, kicked their boots off, opened the fridge and helped themselves to your beer, I reckon you'd be a tad upset.

If my house was leased out to "National Parks", they'd be quite entitled to.
Uluru is not a privately owned property.

Hey maybe mt Everest has some religeous meaning to someone but its not stopping ppl climbing it or even dying on it. Why do ppl want to climb Uluru??? COZ ITS THERE.

Cheers Rod

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It's been my experience here that when the thread starts going round and round, with the same old points bought up by new posters, even though their questions have been answered early in the thread, [ which they have obviously not read,] time to move on.

Originally Posted by Chops

Not quite sure it's anywhere near the same thing as such. But funny how you can actually get guided tours through most, if not all cathedrals,, one only has to ask if it's not on the tourist list. Those of notoriety are mahout tourist attractions. These are buildings that are "man made", not just part of the landscape.

Coming into "my house",, something that has been "paid for" by "me", through hard work, sweat and tears, this is an entirely different matter.

The point has been missed. Vlad described Uluru in a rather dismissive fashion in his post as "just a big rock", where it has already been made clear early in the thread that it does have major cultural significance. I was merely attempting to draw parallels with places of either religious or personal significance, the question of ownership does not necessarily arise.