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Walt Horning <whorning@pipeline.com> wrote in message news:<4g4slt47l6m44lj8it6js1io94ao3etfn3@4ax.com>...
> Environmentalists are mentally ill:
> 
>  - they get a law passed to save gas by forcing car-makers to make
>    smaller, less safe cars causing more highway deaths
> 
>       Burning less oil is more important than human lives?

We've gone to war over oil. So yes, I guess it is.

> 
>  - they get a law passed to save endangered fish along some rivers and
>    the farmers cannot get water and are the ones now "endangered"
> 
>       Fish are more important than humans? 

Endangered? How do you make that connection? Sure, farmers may get
stiffed, but I really doubt their jobs are more important than an
entire species. BTW, farmers' jobs have been endangered for the past
50 or so years, ever since America started went from agriculture to
industry to a service based economy. Fortunately for them, they get
massive government subsidies so they DON'T die out completely. If
anything, the biggest problem facing small farmers is corporatization.

> 
>       Its "OK" for the farmers to die instead?

Yeah, because they'll all die from starvation or dehydration. 

> 
>  - they get a laws passed to make it twice as expensive to produce
>    electricity in California and then cannot figure out how come they
>    cannot get any power or have to pay too much
> 
>       Too many regulations are more important than humans?

The environmentalists did this? I thought it was the energy companies
in conjunction with the state of California.

> 
>  - they do not want oil drilling in certain areas but ignore the fact
>    that if there is a shortage of heating oil, little babies could
>    freeze to death
> 
>       Are a few Caribou are more important that babies?

There is no shortage of oil. And even if there was, drilling the
Alaskan wildlife preserve would be absolutely useless since its got
about 6 months worth of oil anyways. Oil is more expensive now than it
was last year, but oh well. No need to destroy a wildlife preserve
because you were dumb enough to buy a gas-guzzling SUV.

>  
>  - they interfere with military target practice on deserted islands
>    and ignore the need for self-defense or a military force for
>    problems like Iraq
> 
>       Are a few birds more important than national security?

Self-defence? Hardly. I believe self-defence is defined as the act of
preventing an attacker from harming you. Last I recall, WE declared
war on Iraq.

> 
>  - they have always protested nuclear weapons, but only with weapons
>    of mass destruction is there a defense against more "Hitlers" in
>    this world
> 
>       Are a few more holocausts what these mentally ill people want?

We never used nuclear weapons against Hitler. If anything beat Hitler,
it was his own moronic invasion of the USSR.

> 
>       "The bomb" saved hundreds of thousands of US soldiers' lives
>       when Japan surrendered. (Granted, they could have bombed
>       military targets or some less populated area for an effective
>       demonstration to get them to surrender.)

Yeah, I think it would have been better to actually bomb a military
target. Even the Japanese didn't attack a city. BTW, the Japanese were
willing to surrender on a condition that they keep their emperor. As
you should know, the US doesn't do conditional surrenders, so we
bombed them instead to show we meant business. But guess what! They
still kept their emperor!

> 
>  - they moan and groan about CO2 emission, when in fact more CO2 means
>    more green plants to counter the effect of CO2 and bring the amount
>    of CO2 back in "balance".
> 
>       Are the deaths of millions of starving people worth it when
>       world economies fail due to excessive regulation?

This is a rather startling leap of logic here. More planting of plants
will mean  more plants. Excessive CO2 emissions will only make it
harder for us to breath and go outside when its sunny. BTW, the
ecosystem was doing fine long before humans started pumping all this
co2 into the atmosphere. The CO2 we exhale has always been, and should
continue to be, enough for every little plant in the world.

> 
> These people may mean well, but I can only conclude they are mentally
> ill when they cannot see the harm they are doing. Some regulation is
> needed, that is for sure, but these people are no longer sensible, but
> fanatics.

Are you talking about yourself?