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Four Legs, GOOD!! Two Legs BAD!!!!!!!!!
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by 23bms on August 25, 2008
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The law of unintended consequences.
We live in an insane asylum.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121963304805268235.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
[re: Komodo monitors] "These locals have long viewed the dragons as a reincarnation of fellow kinsfolk, to be treated with reverence. But now, villagers say, the once-friendly dragons have turned into vicious man-eaters. And they blame policies drafted by American-funded environmentalists for this frightening turn of events."
"When I was growing up, I felt the dragons were my family," says 55-year-old Hajji Faisal. "But today the dragons are angry with us, and see us as enemies." The reason, he and many other villagers believe, is that environmentalists, in the name of preserving nature, have destroyed Komodo's age-old symbiosis between dragon and man."
For centuries, local tradition required feeding the dragons -- which live more than 50 years, can recognize individual humans and usually stick to fairly small areas. Locals say they always left deer parts for the dragons after a hunt, and often tied goats to a post as sacrifice. Island taboos strictly prohibited hurting the giant reptiles, a possible reason why the dragons have survived in the Komodo area despite becoming extinct everywhere else."
THEN, western self righteous "scientific" genius intervened...
"Indonesia invited the Nature Conservancy, a Virginia-based environment protection group, to help manage the park in 1995. An Indonesian subsidiary of the group, called Putri Naga Komodo, gained a tourism concession for the park in 2005 and is investing in the conservation effort some $10 million of its own money and matching financing from international donors."
"With this funding and advice, park authorities put an end to villagers' traditional deer hunting, enforcing a prohibition that had been widely disregarded. They declared canines an alien species, and outlawed the villagers' dogs, which used to keep dragons away from homes. Park authorities banned the goat sacrifices, previously staged on Komodo for the benefit of picture-snapping tourists."
"We don't want the Komodo dragon to be domesticated. It's against natural balance," says Widodo Ramono, policy director of the Nature Conservancy's Indonesian branch and a former director of the country's national park service. "We have to keep this conservation area for the purpose of wildlife. It is not for human beings."
Self righteous stupidity is the only art form that modern Homo sapiens has truly mastered.
Anticipating crucifixion for the above opinion...,
jrb
ps: Don't care.
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RE: Four Legs, GOOD!! Two Legs BAD!!!!!!!!!
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by LarryDFishel on August 26, 2008
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"It is not for human beings."
Maybe not, but the carnivorous monkeys WERE a part of the ecosystem.
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RE: Four Legs, GOOD!! Two Legs BAD!!!!!!!!!
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by 23bms on August 26, 2008
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The real problem is the arrogance, self righteousness, condescension, stupidity and abject ignorance of the 'conservation' movement. Their (unstated) basic premise is that a plague wiping out 99% of humanity (the proponents precious carcasses excluded, of course) will return the Earth to some state of primeval nirvana (which, equally of course, NEVER EXISTED).
This is not to say that the conservation movement hasn't done a great deal of good. It has. The problem occurs when rationality, common sense if you will, gives way to pathological extremism. The modern conservation movement has ceased to be scientific. It is now a RELIGIOUS movement totally devoid of any anchor in reality. Religion is scientifically unprovable 'faith', faith being defined as a belief system that is maintained regardless of (perhaps in spite of would be better) demonstrable or scientifically plausible contradictory evidence.
Denial of any of the modern conservationist tenents constitutes theological (formerly scientific) heresy, with mortal consequences. Today's global warming 'deniers' fare about as well, metaphorically speaking, as suspected Jews did under the reign of Torquemada. The 'deniers' are quite probably right. That won't save them from an auto de fe of politically correct governmentally sponsored wrath.
jrb
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