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In article <1992Dec15.125353.18026@alf.uib.no> sigurd@novaja.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Sigurd Tjelmeland) writes:
>I have two questions:
>
>  Do anyone believe that whales have a greater right
>  to live than other hunted animals (reindeer etc.)?
>

Intellectually, no. Emotionally: yes, to a degree. The degree does not
involve reindeers, though - to take an extreme example, I feel more
for a whale than for a paramecium.

>  Do anyone seriously hold the view that "Omaha" seems
>  to advocate: Animals are as important as humans
>  (implying it is an equal crime to kill an animal as
>   to kill a human being)?

What do you mean by important? From a philosophical point of view, I
indeed don't feel humans are more important than anything else. For
nature, for example, I find it hard to imagine a less important species.
This of course doesn't mean that people are *less* important, again from
the abstract poiint of view, and, subjectively speaking, since I am one,
I wouldn't want people to become extinct.

>
>I believe that the question of hunting of minke whales
>in the North Atlantic from the perspective of preserving
>or endagering the species as such has been finally
>settled through the work of the scientific committee of IWC,
>so the debate is now on moral issues.

Maybe, maybe not. I would like to point out, however, that killing
whales is not *necessary*; that is what counts. We all live in a great
restaurant, and everybody's on the menu, so we can't do away with
killing. Killing something (be they whales, ducks or anything else)
because of unemployment or fun or whatever is indeed equivalent to making
soap out of Jews.

	Tero Sand
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