Reply #28: There are many important things in the world [View All]

And most people tend to address multiple issues. Just because people are outraged about the seal hunt doesn't bar them from being outraged about the killing of innocent men, women and children. In fact I would wager a lot of money that those who are outraged about the seal hunt are also outraged about such human suffering and death, and that furthermore, that grouping of people are more active in preventing such actions than the regular population.

And indeed, seal hunting is but one facet of mankind's assault on the enviroment. The reason that such "population control" of the seals is deemed neccessary is because humans from Europe and North America have nearly wiped out the fish population of the North Atlantic. Their motivation for limiting the seal population is one based on economics and greed. Wipe out a competing predator, and perhaps the fish populations will return to a profitable level. Money, a pretty shitty reason to "control" seal populations. Perhaps instead of hunting down and "controlling" the seal population, who has not contributed to the overfishing of the North Atlantic, we should instead hunt down and "control" the population of predators who have directly contributed to such overfishing, mankind.:shrug::sarcasm:

Such experiments at "population control" in the past have often become disasters, witness the buffalo, wolves, mountain lions etc. etc. ad nauseum. Instead of repeating this mistake once more and pushing another species to the brink, perhaps we should allow Mother Nature to determine such matters. After all, nature has a pretty good track record that goes back tens of thousands of years.