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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: Whale killing - other animals
- Message-ID: <phfrom.225@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
- Keywords: disgusting
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
- References: <1992Jul28.124428@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:35:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.124428@sicsun.epfl.ch> dubuf@sicsun.epfl.ch (Hans DU BUF) writes:
-
- >Last week or so when someone started the discussion about the Norwegian
- >"scientific" need for killing whales, [..]
-
- This was me.
-
- >Yesterday I read in my Dutch newspaper (NRC/Handelsblad) that an
- >initiative has led to the collection of 2,500,000 signatures from 63
- >countries agaist Spanish bullfights, and that these have been offered to
- >some Spanish representative.
- >Unfortunately, I have missed this initiative, else it would be 2,500,001.
-
- Very noble from you to be against bullfights, I'm also against. But --
- pleeease, don't confuse bulls with whales. It is not helpful for either
- if you put in the same discussion. I'm against bullfights because this is
- killing for (some unnatural) pleasure, and I'm against whale killing since
- at least some of the whale species (dolphins and orcas) are intelligent AND
- nobody really needs to kill/eat whales: Norwegians, Japanese, Icelanders,
- and Faroeer Islanders have enough fish, beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc.
-
- Another interesting point MIGHT well be that some whalers perhaps think of
- themselves as quasi-matadors or some kind of "heroic sportsmen". Since
- whales don't even try to defend themselves (contrary to bulls), this is
- totally misleading -- whale killing is also coward and dangerous only for
- stupid whalers.
- --
- Hartmut Frommert, Physics, Univ of Constance, | + Whale killing is murder. +
- P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany | + Eat whale killers. +
- E-Mail: <phfrom@dknkurz1.bitnet> or <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
- + "Windows NoT" expands in German to "Windows Noch Teurer"
- + ^even ^more expensive
-