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(in this case boat and ship motors). As I said in my first post on this topic while man has indeed made some great achievments, we've also commited some incredible atrocities to go with them....
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Travelling across the ocean! How dare we!!
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simple "I'm sorry for trying to commit genicide" be sufficiant? What should be our punishment?
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Most countries that don't depend on whales for food and oil don't whale. At one time they were the only source we knew of. Petroleum was nasty smelly stuff that bubbled up on bad property. They were just one other animal we depended on for food/products. A little hard to farm, so it wasn't as if we could create a sustainable source.
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think about how many people have also died doing so.
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It is true that when we enter environments where our instincts are useless (such as space), we may be clumsy before we know what we are doing. Are you suggesting that that is an excuse to douse ambition and refrain from exploration?
It's not that I don't appreciate other animals. I just feel that mankinds first loyalty should be to mankind, just as a person's first loyalty should be to his family and country. It shouldn't prevent him from helping others or acting humane, but he should place the welfare of himself and other human beings before other species. These days, we have the luxury of conservation because we don't need the animals that we would have hunted to extinction in the past. However, I wouldn't complain if a country needed to continue hunting something, even to extinction, if it was to feed it's people.
For example, in Africa wars are regularly fought by one side burning the farmland and denying food to the other to break their will to resist. I heard of one instance where an environmental group was accosting a group of starving refugees, who were driven into a mountain, because they were hunting and eating gorrillas (gorillas being one of the only large animals present). Under my philosophy, those refugees need to look out for number one first before they have time to make such luxurious decisions as whether or not to conserve, and those environmentalists need to be smacked.