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How long until it’s open season on hunting them.
by piatra 3y ago
How long until it’s open season on hunting them.
- areoform 3y ago> How long until it’s open season on hunting them. In 2011, the subgroup had 39 members. Yes, let's go hunt a sentient, intelligent species trying to protect themselves and their young to extinction; forever losing their intelligence and culture. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27770983/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27770983/
- tgv 3y ago[flagged]
- multiplegeorges 3y ago> Literally nothing of value will be lost. Shockingly small-minded thing to say.
- tgv 3y agoI knew people were going to react like that, but tell me: what value is there in the primitive, inscrutable culture of a tiny group? That kind of thing gets lost all the time. Every time a school class graduates, their tiny culture dissolves. I'll repeat that I'm against hunting them, but that's because they are sentient and intelligent.
- omniglottal 3y agoPrecisely the same rationale can be applied to you. When you figure out why your inscrutable culture has any perceptible value, apply that reasoning outside your intentionally-narrowed values system. Recognize that the culture has not truly dissolved - it's merely your recognition thereof which has. What value is there in the advanced, inscrutable culture of a large group?
- tgv 3y ago* So you can't tell. * Our culture isn't inscrutable. You're part of it. You understand it. * But is it the culture that makes you oppose killing people? Or whales? Chickens have no culture, certainly not factory farmed ones. Killing them is fine? Pigs? Cows? Solitary humans?
- chmod775 3y agoI wonder if this is what a hypothetical alien civilization may think of us: If we blow it up and build a hyperspace bypass through it, nothing of value will be lost.
- LgWoodenBadger 3y agoI don't know if GP was serious, but that's the typical human (or maybe just US) response to things like shark-attacks: kill them all. It's awful, but I wouldn't be surprised. Even in 2023 humans are generally awful.
- highstep 3y agodon't worry, we'll be gone soon and some sort of life on earth will go on
- AHOHA 3y agoI remember seeing a video of a mother whale thanking sailors by bringing some food after they freed her kid from a fishing net. I believe if we actually start killing those intelligent creatures, we will severely off balance the ocean!
- Haga 3y ago[dead]
- pvaldes 3y agoWe don't want to escalate a global war with orcas. Just give the seabernard its stupid sardine.
- bmitc 3y agoThis group is critically endangered and is protected by law, as they should be.
- francisofascii 3y agoAgreed, but if an Orca is trying to sink your boat, it would be hard sell to say you can't fight back.
- bmitc 3y agoIt's tough. Humans initiated the invasive and agressive behavior. Now that orcas have retailiated, for whatever reason, it isn't right for humans to act innocent and blameless and to want to retaliate back. Deterrence should be the only goal. Anything more should be met with harsh penalties.
- cppenjoyer 3y ago[flagged]