Animal Planet is degenerating, maaaaaan....

So on Animal Planet right now, they're playing a show called 'After the Attack.' It features people who have been attacked by wild animals facing those animals to get over their residual fear. So far, there was a family that was attacked by a wolf at the beach, and now they are on a guy who was attacked by a bison at Yellowstone. Why was he attacked? Because, yes, he was one of those dumbasses you can spot every day at Yellowstone who competitively edge closer and closer to the gigantic wild beasts in order to get the CLOSEST PICTURE EVAAAAAAAR. He is now complaining that, while there is currently a ranger ordering people to back off from a herd of bison at the place where he was attacked, there was no one to warn tourists to keep their distance when he was attacked.

To all of you who have actually been to Yellowstone, you probably remember the THICK assortment of pamphlets and flyers distributed to everyone at all entrances to the park, featuring warnings in large print along with the detailed reasons behind not doing certain things and countless illustrations depicting the results of ignoring said warnings (basically, cartoon people being violently DESTROYED by every animal you can think of, as well as the one showing the tourist falling through the ground into a volcanic pit of boiling water as his sneakers melt).

He just said "I need to get over this, because now I am scared of buffalo and it made me feel like a dumbass." Go with the feeling.

...And now they are trying to get him over his fear of bison. By exposing him to tame ones and letting him pet them. WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS??? Isn't his fear of bison just a result of learning from things that happen, namely that bison are really fuckin' dangerous and you should leave them alone? Does he need to deal with bison on a regular, daily basis??? He's like an accountant or something. This isn't like trying to get him over a nonsensical pickle-phobia or something. The attack has probably only instilled in him the idea that you shouldn't get too close to bison because they can kill you; now this show is trying to turn that AROUND? 

He just said "I have come full circle, back to being this close to an animal......Being close to a big animal like that buffalo again....it was a thrill."   The narrator just said "This experience lets people turn a negative experience into an intensely positive one."  In other words, guess who wants to go mingle with bison again?