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Newsgroup: sci.bio
Subject: Norway starts hunting minke whales


ST>I am curious about how people think about the issue
ST>of whale hunting. There is obviously a lot of emotion.

Lots of emotion involved here....

ST>  Do anyone believe that whales have a greater right
ST>  to live than other hunted animals (reindeer etc.)?

In my own opinion, I feel that if you placed all of the animals and
organisms of the earth on an IQ scale, the cetaceans would run a close
second to man... Since they have the greatest IQ besides man, It would
be MORALLY unjust to kill them....

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

yes, sort of... If it is with out a doubt necessary to human survival as
a species that we kill them, then it IS ok to kill animals including
whales for survival purposes only... But we Don't NEED to KILL
CETACEANS!! Everything that comes from them except the meat can be
produced synthetically now!! So IT IS A CRIME TO KILL ANIMALS PERIOD IF
THERE IS NO SUBSTATIAL REASON FOR DOING IT!!!

ST>settled through the work of the scientific committee of IWC,
ST>so the debate is now on moral issues.

Yep... it's all moral now...
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