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It's become very fashionable among the intelligentsia to make these sorts of claims. I have never liked elitist thinking, which is why I vote the way I do. Wi
by robotrout 17y ago
It's become very fashionable among the intelligentsia to make these sorts of claims.
I have never liked elitist thinking, which is why I vote the way I do.
With regard to elephants in particular, I give you buffalo, as an example of an endangered herd animal which is no longer endangered, and in fact, is available for your next BBQ at the local grocery store. That's not intelligentsia, elitist theory, that's history.
As for whales, or fish, things become more tricky, if you can't put a fence around them and say "these are mine".
- hyperbovine 17y agoWeird.. still trying to figure out how you got news.ycombinator.com out of www.freerepublic.com...
- robotrout 17y agoAnd there is plenty of evidence that humans are myopic, irrational beings. I was responding to the above statement, which, in the context you used it, was frankly, elitist, in that you imply that the unwashed masses need guidance from their betters.
- camccann 17y agoI really cannot fathom the kind of confusion necessary to regard empirical knowledge as "elitist". I don't particularly like the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but calling it elitist and voting for people who promise to ignore it really wouldn't accomplish much.
- robotrout 17y agoI gave you buffalo as an empirical example of private ownership being used to inflate the population of an endangered herd animal. I agree that empirical trumps theory. We're on the same page there. You seem to be confused what empirical means.