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- From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Whale rights - Science and sentimen
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:29:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.101707.2485@cco.caltech.edu> <Jul.31.02.41.02.1992.28701@remus.rutgers.edu> <JMC.92Jul31004008@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.92Jul31004008@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- >
- >The main objection to hunting whales is that many of my fellow
- >humans don't like it.
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- Bravo. Reminds me of that scene in Lawrence of Arabia in which Faisal is
- telling the American reporter [paraphrase] - "Lawrence spares the lives of
- our prisonsers because he is a humanitarian -- for me, it is simply good
- manners. I leave it to you to decide which is the more reliable motive."
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