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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.misc
- Subject: Re: Whale killing for "science" -- so for what?
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:09:50
- Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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- In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:48:59 GMT
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- In article <ewright.712000139@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- In <STEINLY.92Jul20184606@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:
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- >>From: magnus@jaist-east.ac.jp (Magnus Halldorsson)
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- Interesting how all of the people quoting one another here and
- supporting Norway's war against the whales seem to have Scandinavian
- sounding names.
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- Maybe it is because your self-righteous posturing actually affects
- people we know directly, and I at least resent misdirected yuppie
- guilt being alleviated by tokenistic moralising over an issue so
- thoroughly prejudged.
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- I wonder... if one Norwegian died for every
- whale, would they feel the same way?
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- ??? I don't know what you're getting at, would you
- feel differently if a human died for every carrot you ate?
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- >I refer to an article in New Scientist on 29 October 1988, pp.46-47,
- >by Dr. Margaret Klinowska, described as a member of the "IUCN Species
- >Survival Commission Cetacean Specialist Group". I quote:
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- Could identify the "IUCN" for us, please? (Why would I not
- be surprised to find out it's a whaling group?)
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- It's an agency of the World Conservation Union, as far as I know
- it has nothing to do with whaling per se. Why don't you provide
- your own facts - or are you permanently set in prejudice?
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- What gives you the right to impose your moral standards on others?
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- If you want to continue this, take it to talk.env or soc.culture.nordic
- - it was the German "cannibal" who wanted redirects to sci.misc...
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