\'Crocodile Hunter\' Steve Irwin killed

[Tib. Gabinius]

Tobias said: "I was soldier also, but i would never compare that work with what the crocodil hunter did.
Soldiers do everything they can to avoid situations, where they can be killed."

The second you wear the uniform of a soldier, you understand that you will likely be put into harm's way. That's part of the job a soldier undertakes. Like soldiers, Steve did a job that was full of many dangers, but I don't think he deliberately put himself in what he, as a trained professional, considered too high of a risk. The same thing happens to soldiers that are ambushed, or their APC hits a land mine. They don't knowingly try and hit landmines, but accidents happen. That goes with the job.

I already mentioned, that was the part of my text you didnt quote, that soldiers work is dangerous in itself.
But the different is, that not one pioneer would throw himself to the ground, laughing in a camera and talkin about a "beautiful example of a mine, detonating already by vibration, and look how deep it is in..." Cause the danger would be to high.

That jobs have a risk is quite normal, some more, some less, some jobs are more usfull some less.
Its a question how to handle with the danger and how to put the responsibility behind.

And most of those soldiers have families. These are families who marry their husbands or wives knowing they may not come back from their jobs. That's the unfortunate burden that they carry, and it's no different than Steve's family. The principles are exactly the same, just under different circumstances. It's not fair to say that one family or person had any less of a burden than another.

And what is the most used words? "Take care" "come back!" and so on.
And the soldiers will try to do so, like the crafters working on roofs or the policeman, who all do sensfull work which cant be done other ways.

To kiss a "brown snake" isnt that way.
I also would go into action if im ordered to do, and i know the high risk this work inculdes, especially for recons.
But i also wouldnt spring off my cover if someone is shooting at me, just to get a kick.
And i never, really never would hold my son on the arm, going into battle.

Thats why i cant accept the compare.

He had a job, a quite normal job i guess. There a some dozends of TV animal / wildlife moderators like Jaques Costeau, Sielmann and so on.
It was the way he did the job...