Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:45:24 -0700 From: jneps <jneps@gateway.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg846$foo@default> Subject: Re: animals
Hi Sylvia,
Yes, I agree with you. However, I hold out precious little
hope for the future of humanity. Humans are a primitive species.
Very few are evolved enough to exhibit the most exalted of all
human characteristics: compassion. For this reason, I believe
it very likely that our species will cease to exhist within
the next generation or two. Unfortunate? Perhaps, but the
fate of mankind will be exactly that which humans collectively
deserve.
Bottom line is that I have long since given up trying to change the
minds of other people. Humans choose to believe whatever they
will, in many instances regardless of evidence supporting their
beliefs, or to the contrary. As a human, I am no exception,
although I do believe that a good education goes a long way toward
ameliorating this unhappy circumstance.
In any case, although the future will likely not be pleasant for us,
I do believe that it will be rather interesting, at least in some
sense.
Regards,
Dr. Jeff Shafer
Sylvia De Rooy wrote:
>
> I joined this list believing that by doing so I would be in the company
> of people who are sensitive to the natural world, who are aware of the
> destruction that we have done and are doing to our resources and who are
> aware of the value of all of these resources. Silly me. It would seem
> that all many of you care about is what's in your backyard, your plants
> are all that matter, as though those plants exist in a vacuum unaffected
> by the larger world. Many, probably most, of you would be screaming holy
> murder if I went to a natural bog and ripped up cp's by the gazillions.
> But you would seem not to see the contradiction when you advocate the
> killing of animals or the spraying of poisons.
> Mr Pagoulatos' "wise use", property rights uber alles view would seem to
> be closer to the common view on this list than anything. Very sad because
> his views are nothing short of ignorant and ugly. His saying, "I do
> espouse the view that animals have no rights whatsoever" is, if nothing
> else, a view that is utterly ignorant of the complexity of
> interdependency of all the beings on this earth. I don't know how many
> people are on this list but, off list posting or no, the hue and cry
> about his post should choke this list for the next week at least.But it's
> my guess that, even among those of you who may sense that his post is
> unacceptable, there will be little response.
> Is there anyone on this list who understands that the decreasing habitat
> for cp's is because of the thinking of the Pagoulatos of this world?
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