Harpoon Not, Lest Ye Be on the Dinner Menu Next

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> the sake of accumulation, whereas the former is.  There is no such thing as
> "whaling as such."  Your posts are based on a false abstraction -- "whaling
> as such" -- which makes no distinction between whaling for exchange value
> and whaling for use value.

In the world of advanced technology, this is a use-value we (and the
whales) can afford to do without.

As far as morality is concerned: in an evolutionary sense, we're way past
what the whales (that abusive term for what's really a complex set of
species) have achieved, in terms of tool-using intelligence. Chances are
there are plenty of species in this fine galaxy of ours which are as
advanced compared to us as we are to plankton. If they decide to bulldoze
the solar system for a new interstellar highway which will increase
galactic GDP, is that OK or isn't it?

-- Dennis