RE: Asian Swamp Eels

From: White, Ryan (ryan@dvelco.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 15:19:59 MDT


Word.

Michael S. Lorrey wrote {

First you need a prosecutor to decide if a crime has actually been comitted
by
the species. Since the law of the land is natural selection, they are
violating
no law. It is the misguided 'environmentalists' who are assigning artificial
(i.e. not natural) values to maintaining statis in the ecosystem. Stasis is
not
natural.
}

"White, Ryan" wrote:
>
> Exterminating a successful species seems sort of like punnishing a
> successful software company, except that the eels have no means within our
> social system to represent or defend their interests.
>
> I find it amusing how arbitrarily many humans seem to assign value to
> species on this planet.
>
> Perhaps, before the human concensus makes decisions about how interfere
with
> another species, some sort of defense attorney should be elected to
> represent the species submitted for judgement, and a hearing should
convene.



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