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Never underestimate the power of unintended consequences and faulty assumptions. Setting minimum size on fish caught, for example, is intended to protect the yo
by jballanc 18y ago
Never underestimate the power of unintended consequences and faulty assumptions. Setting minimum size on fish caught, for example, is intended to protect the young and, hopefully, still virile individuals so that they can sustain the population.
Did you catch the faulty assumption? Small != Young (at least, not necessarily...)
- tdavis 18y agoThey're pretty much all faulty assumptions since they're predicated on the notion that an animal outside of the food chain can do something to avoid affecting it. From farming wildlife to completely eliminating countless species on a daily basis... what the hell do people expect? Everything to magically work out? We are a part of the global ecosystem only insofar as we are physically in it; we don't interact with the biological community the way any other creature does. Of course we're going to fuck it over. Hopefully I'll be dead before we've completely eliminated it.