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> they are perfectly willing to kill cute animals. Believe you me I didn't doubt that ... I am pointing out that there is no moral argument for why it is right

• rstuart4133 6y ago
  It's possibly instructive at this point to ponder what sort of people it takes to ensure Australia & NZ are one of the very few who stopped COIVD. We had people prevented from attending their dying parents, and seen tears from mothers kept separated from children, millions of dollars in fines handed out for merely walking in the wrong place or not having a face mask. And now we are flying people out to remote mining camps to do their quarantine. But very, very few COVID deaths, and zero new local transmissions in the last few days - despite the UK strain being loose for a short while. In others areas, they took a scorched earth policy to citrus canker https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/citrus_canker/report/c02 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Sen... ("the disease took 11 years to fully eradicate and resulted in the destruction of every citrus tree north of latitude 19 degrees south"), and completely shut down prawn farming in my area (sending everyone broke) in response to a white spot imported from Chinese pawns. So yeah, when it comes to quarantine we are monstrous. Pig headed and completely ruthless as well.