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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: VAAGE-WHALE-HUNTING
- Message-ID: <phfrom.226@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
- Sender: usenet@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de
- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
- References: <1992Jul24.204037.18821@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:56:07 GMT
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- mortenaa@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Aagaard) writes:
-
- >YES, I live in Norway!
- >NO, I don't kill whales or other human beings!
-
- If, in addition, you are against your country's, i.e. government's, whale
- policy, then I think nobody has anything against you. This would include
- not to take any profit from whale killing, and not to consume anything
- made from whales.
-
- >EMOTIONAL reactions are human,
- >IGNORANCE is human, too.
- ^^^^^^^^^
- so you prove that those officials who decided to kill whales are human.
- Also making the fiction that there are "scientific" reasons for killing
- whales seems to be human.
-
- >A recent article in New Scientist should be of great interest.
- >It says something about the complex ecology in which the vaage-whale is a
- >very major consumer of fish, competing with much more extinct whales. I
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This, not with whales but your fishing industries, is probably one of the
- *economic* reasons why your officials decided to kill them, besides that
- they are hunted to be eaten.
-
- >guess the scientists got their data through divine intuition...
-
- Could someone please post in which issue ?
-
- >A UN-convoi is stuck in a mine-field in Jugoslavia, which means that about
- >70 000 people are not getting their food/medicines. If people will boycot
- >Norwegian food etc. we could maybe give it to these people?
-
- The main purpose of a boycott would be to urge your officials to stop
- whale killing. Do you see any other way to achieve this ?
-
- Of course, your country, as well as all others, should support the people in
- Bosnia etc. with food and medicines. But I think that has nothing to do with
- the whale issue.
- --
- 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
-