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Re: Seal Hunt is Bad! Let's do something else.

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From: Rubystars
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:44
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"Seymour_F_Butts" <Seymour_F_Butts@asleep.com> wrote in message
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> It seems when a few thousand animals congregate togther, humans call that
too
> many an issue a cull.
>
>  How about culling the human race?

Um, no.

>The human race is the biggest environmental
> threat to the earth.

No, that's the sun. It might get crateredby large comets and meteors
sometimes too, but they're not much of a threat to the earth itself anymore.
Not since the big impact that caused the formation of the moon.

>Not a few hundred thousand seals, moose, mountain lions,
> etc.  But over 6 Billion human beans.

Human beans? *L* Yay for transgenics. ;)

>  But then again , I guess that is what WAR is for.

WAR?

> It is a naturally human
> instinct to self cull in response to over population and over crowding.

Large populations just tend to have more of everyone, assholes included.

>  Also exploration to find new places to live is also a natural instinct.
So
> support space exploration.

Cool idea.

-Rubystars
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