Where do you stand on Whaling ?

Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
Damocles said:
Anybody should be allowed to hunt anything that they like, even into extinction.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

Any reason?

they have every right to live on this planet as we do, and it's not our right to go round exterminating other creatures just because we feel like it.

Your standpoint to me sums the bad traits that have come through from the evolution of man and your standpoint completely disregards nature and its ways and means.
 
JoeMercer'sWay said:
Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
I wholeheartedly disagree.

Any reason?

they have every right to live on this planet as we do, and it's not our right to go round exterminating other creatures just because we feel like it.

Your standpoint to me sums the bad traits that have come through from the evolution of man and your standpoint completely disregards nature and its ways and means.

I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.

Nature is a battlefield to survive.
 
Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
Damocles said:
Any reason?

they have every right to live on this planet as we do, and it's not our right to go round exterminating other creatures just because we feel like it.

Your standpoint to me sums the bad traits that have come through from the evolution of man and your standpoint completely disregards nature and its ways and means.

I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.

Nature is a battlefield to survive.

Are we talking about whales or gingers now?
 
The Flash said:
Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
they have every right to live on this planet as we do, and it's not our right to go round exterminating other creatures just because we feel like it.

Your standpoint to me sums the bad traits that have come through from the evolution of man and your standpoint completely disregards nature and its ways and means.

I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.

Nature is a battlefield to survive.

Are we talking about whales or gingers now?


I'm not sure the two are mutually exclusive...
 
Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
Damocles said:
Any reason?

they have every right to live on this planet as we do, and it's not our right to go round exterminating other creatures just because we feel like it.

Your standpoint to me sums the bad traits that have come through from the evolution of man and your standpoint completely disregards nature and its ways and means.

I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.

Nature is a battlefield to survive.

the way we kill things isn't natural, so from my point of view at least, "survival of the fittest" does not apply.

We are not a natural predator of the whale and on your logic we'd have to exterminate everything using weapons that are not part of a human's biological make-up.

Nature has shown that those who adapt to their natural surroundings and the changes in nature survive, how you honestly expect whales to evolve to deal with humans using man-made floating devices and man-made traps to catch them and man-made weapons to murder them is beyond me.

Our intelligence makes up for our physical weakness, it doesn't give us the right to believe we are superior to anything else, because we're not, we're from the same cloth as everything else. We're not special, unless you're a believer in the soul and believe some higher power gave us the right to do what we like over other species. Killing for survival is one thing, extermination is another thing entirely.
 
JoeMercer'sWay said:
Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
they have every right to live on this planet as we do, and it's not our right to go round exterminating other creatures just because we feel like it.

Your standpoint to me sums the bad traits that have come through from the evolution of man and your standpoint completely disregards nature and its ways and means.

I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.

Nature is a battlefield to survive.

the way we kill things isn't natural, so from my point of view at least, "survival of the fittest" does not apply.

We are not a natural predator of the whale and on your logic we'd have to exterminate everything using weapons that are not part of a human's biological make-up.

Nature has shown that those who adapt to their natural surroundings and the changes in nature survive, how you honestly expect whales to evolve to deal with humans using man-made floating devices and man-made traps to catch them and man-made weapons to murder them is beyond me.

Our intelligence makes up for our physical weakness, it doesn't give us the right to believe we are superior to anything else, because we're not, we're from the same cloth as everything else. We're not special, unless you're a believer in the soul and believe some higher power gave us the right to do what we like over other species. Killing for survival is one thing, extermination is another thing entirely.

When whales start building machines that can transport them to the Moon and back, I'll start believing that they're on an equal footing as us. Until then, we are the superior species.

And nature evolves around man all of the time. Have you never seen the Cosmos episode about the Japanese crabs?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNKt6gcEM8[/youtube]
 
we have no business killing whales, we don't need to, so fucking leave the poor things alone.
 
Damocles said:
JoeMercer'sWay said:
Damocles said:
I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.

Nature is a battlefield to survive.

the way we kill things isn't natural, so from my point of view at least, "survival of the fittest" does not apply.

We are not a natural predator of the whale and on your logic we'd have to exterminate everything using weapons that are not part of a human's biological make-up.

Nature has shown that those who adapt to their natural surroundings and the changes in nature survive, how you honestly expect whales to evolve to deal with humans using man-made floating devices and man-made traps to catch them and man-made weapons to murder them is beyond me.

Our intelligence makes up for our physical weakness, it doesn't give us the right to believe we are superior to anything else, because we're not, we're from the same cloth as everything else. We're not special, unless you're a believer in the soul and believe some higher power gave us the right to do what we like over other species. Killing for survival is one thing, extermination is another thing entirely.

When whales start building machines that can transport them to the Moon and back, I'll start believing that they're on an equal footing as us. Until then, we are the superior species.

And nature evolves around man all of the time. Have you never seen the Cosmos episode about the Japanese crabs?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNKt6gcEM8[/youtube]

I caught a dose of Japanese Crabs in Whitley bay in 1997. Those little buggers are built to survive, it took me months to shift them.
 

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