Young grants that point. Yet he insists his case is different. There are secular, scientific reasons to outlaw murder or limit abortion, he argues. Yet there's no good reason to ban logging in national forests other than a religious reverence for trees. A ban on logging, he maintains, is not.
Environmentalists counter with an arsenal of scientific justification.
Preserving the wild for their children. To loggers, the issue is just as emotional. They've been chopping down trees for generations. And they don't see the world as worse off for it. In fact, they view themselves as tending the forest, not destroying it.