🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec15.135524.26092@klaava.Helsinki.FI> cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.125353.18026@alf.uib.no> sigurd@novaja.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Sigurd Tjelmeland) writes:
>>
>>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
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>whales is not *necessary*; that is what counts. We all live in a great
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Thank you!  Very well stated.  The whole essence of the problem is that
we don't need to do it any longer.  It has nothing to do with the number
of whales left.  With the exception of meat, everything that is of
commercial use that is derived from whales can be synthesized at a
comparable cost.  

Joey Maier             maierj@andrews.edu