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- From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
- Subject: Re: Whale rights - Science and sentimen
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.092623.8219@alf.uib.no>
- Keywords: whale brain
- Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
- References: <MAGNUS.92Jul7162836@is19e0s00.jaist-east.ac.jp> <1992Jul7.205831.21483@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Jul8.172713.23846@sequent.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 09:26:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul8.172713.23846@sequent.com> bfish@sequent.com (Brett Fishburne) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul7.205831.21483@newstand.syr.edu> mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline) writes:
- > < beginning of post deleted >
- >>
- >>Perhaps the question of intelligence is irrelevant to the question of whether
- >>whales have "rights."
- >
- > < stuff deleted>
- >>
- >>Is somebody here arguing that whales should only be afforded protection from
- >>extinction if they are sufficiently intelligent? Does anyone earnestly
- >>believe that according whales "rights" will protect them from extinction?
- >>Human rights are not universally respected. Whales don't need
- >>rights to be protected from extinction. They need humans -- their only
- >>significant predators -- to be suffienctly intelligent.
- >
- >While I applaud your sentiment the issue here goes beyond extinction. Is
- >it "right", from an environmental viewpoint, to allow even small scale
- >whaling to continue? Suppose that whales are intelligent. Imagine how much
- >more we could learn about the earth! The sea is as much a mystery to man
- >in many ways as outer space. Can you imagine the return that could be ours
- >if we would only recognize that the intelligence exists? If whales are not
- >intelligent, then there is no need to be any more concerned about small
- >scale whaling then there is about cattle ranching.
- >
- >-- Brett
- >
- Sounds to me like you've been reading a good deal of science fiction...;-)
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- Thor
- edmtl@fiol.uib.no
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