From: sherw@ocf.berkeley.edu (Gregory Sherwin)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals,alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Alaska Wolf Killing Suspended / interventionist conservation
Date: 12 Jan 1993 00:26:18 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan11.160249.3426@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>>Do you
>>see the obvious inconsistency here?  It is a form of hypocrisy.
>
>Oh come on, get serious Greg!!  So what if they occasionally bring in a
>critter that isn't actually hurt?  Don't you realize that the Marine Mammal
>Recue center is in Great white Shark territory?  

Yes - and what we need is more sharks and less overzealous AR folks who
want to play Mom to every creature on the planet.  
>
>Getting back to the comparison between taking in an uninjured seal, it's

An uninjured seal isn't the main point.  The main point was inconsistency
by compensating for intervention with intervention.  Whether the seal
has a bullet in his forehead or was caught sunning himself during his Club
Med vacation makes no difference to the point here.
>
>Sure we can argue opinions.  My opinion is that your logic is fuzzy and
>you spend excessive energy worrying about things that don't really matter,
>in the grand scheme of things.  Oh, and you have an absurd tendency to
>anthropomorphize...

Well, then clarify on what makes this logic so fuzzy -- I am game.
Who is worrying?  What defines excessive energy?  I could just as easily state
that you seem to spend excessive energy worrying about people who you think
worry excessively about things that don't really matter to you, in the grand
scheme of things.  BTW "anthropomorphize" is a word usually used by people
who think their shit smells any sweeter than that of any non-human animal -
does it boost your self-esteem to think that somehow your bathroom habits,
your eating habits, your sex life, etc. is something uniquely beautiful and
worthy of such exceptional grandeur on this planet compared to everything
else?  Humans are dogs with egos, we just don't piss on as many trees.
>
>We have the power to blow up the planet; that makes us more important than
>any other species, IMO.

This only proves that humans aren't superior, but rather stupid in that they
feel that power is the ability to slit your own throat.
>
>If your self-image is so poor that you can only discuss issues with utter
>seriousness, I suggest you abandon political discussion and subscribe to
>alt.warm-fuzzies.

Sorry - didn't think that this newsgroup was alt.politics.comics-only.
Oh - pardon me, a jest...we shall avoid that lest we think I might have
a good self-image.  (Damn - and I was beginning to feel downright 'special'
to be able to make fun of political discussion.)

If you find issues like this to be so trivial, why do you even bother
reading this newsgroup - let alone responding to postings that you care little
for?  99% of net news is not going to win any Pulitzers anytime soon, what
makes you feel that internet was the creation for Don Baldwin's sole
amusement?  Sorry if you don't approve of the value of my posting, sir, I didn't
realize you were appointed hall monitor.

greg