From: rtt1@cec1.wustl.edu (Rajan T Thampi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: To all you weenies....
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:59:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: wuecl.1992Apr10.175910.946
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.

In article <1992Apr7.194329.1683@athena.mit.edu> zam@athena.mit.edu (Nor Aazizam Mohd Aasif) writes:
>
>	Who is more important: animals or humans?  Logging is the
>third biggest money-earner for our country.  If that means we should
>lose a couple of animal species, I don't think there is anything wrong
>with it.  Unless you are one of those people who values animals more
>than you value humans...
>
	Animals and humans are both equally important.  We are all living 
beings on this planet that we share amongst ourselves.  It is amazing to see
that we call ourselves civilized, and yet there are people out there who are
worse than animals in this day and age.  Go take a human and animal ethics 
course in Philosophy to learn more.              
>>It is a proven fact that there are

>>many plants in the rain forest that have medicinal value.  If we lose
>>one species, we lose the chance to study it for its medicinal value.
>>Who knows, it might even be able to cure AIDS.  So take your own 
>>advice.  Go to the library and read up about the rain forest before
>>discussing anymore.
>
>	Come on...  All these countries that ask us to stop logging do
>not give a jackshit about all the excuses that you have spewed forth
>so far.  What they are interested in, and have been campaigning all
>this time is that rainforest is a good oxygen supplier, and therefore,
>is a good system to fight global warming.  Open your eyes, and do go
>to a library and check what their objection to our logging is.  It is
>not because of the poor-animals and they are concerned with, it is
>global warming...
>
>>>	I am a better person now.  
>>
>>Self praise is no praise.
>
>	Not when you are telling the truth....
>
>>>I can see clearly how some people
>>>are borned with "Anti-Government" gens and will bend over backwards to
>>>criticize the Malaysian government no matter what!  
>>
>>There is nothing wrong with being anti-govt or criticising the govt.  
>>If the govt is wrong, we have a right to criticise it.  If we don't
>>like the policies of the govt, we have the right to be against it.
>
>	Yes, but the government is not wrong on this logging issue.
>We are within our rights to cut whatever trees we want because those
>are our trees.  
>
>===------ 
>NorAazizam MohdAAsif	 
>The white man made many promises to us but they never kept but one; they
>promised to take our land and they took it.
>                                                        Red Cloud


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