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By that logic, then we "disrupting" that equilibrium is also part of the equilibrium. Is it consistent to let a few adult male seals murder hundreds of pups whi
by rixed 5mo ago
By that logic, then we "disrupting" that equilibrium is also part of the equilibrium. Is it consistent to let a few adult male seals murder hundreds of pups while at the same time forbid hunters to hunt a few seals for fur, or fishermen in Faroe islands to catch dolphins once a year?
To me, it sounds that the fear of unintended consequences that you mentioned is what I called "distrust of human society". Yes, I am aware of the risk, and that's an argument that I accept in general. But it applies only at large scale, so not in the case at hand. Or we can picture an even smaller scale: picture a single old male attacking a single defenseless pup. Interfering?
- somenameforme 5mo agoThe scale of animal tourism + photography is rather large, and every single time somebody sees something awful happening, we have an instinct to want to 'fix' it. Yet it's nature - stomach turning things are happening constantly. I don't know what you mean by a distrust of human society, but if you mean that I think it would rapidly grow beyond a handful of isolated incidents, then that's certainly true.