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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: What's Necessary?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.173441.20823@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <149180185@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <1h37s6INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu> <BznrsE.CHw@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:34:41 GMT
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- In article <BznrsE.CHw@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >In article <1h37s6INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >>In article <149180185@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alan McGowen) writes:
- >>>Is the Spotted owl species worth 1 (one) job? I think so. Is it worth 1 (one)
- >>>human life? Probably.
- >
- >Whose life? Your own? Are you really saying that you would willingly
- >die just to save the lives of a few owls? (What about the lives of a few
- >hundred chickens and cattle?) That question aside, would you really be
- >willing to put someone to death in order to have some owls? So, tell me.
- >Why would such a person not want to blow your head off rather than to
- >submit to your attack on him?
- >
- >If you are willing to kill in order to obtain such a trivial goal as the
- >survival of a few owls, what would you be willing to do for something
- >which was ACTUALLY valuable? You folks are really frightening.
- >
- >At least you think that a single murder is not as bad as a million.
- >That's where we agree.
- >
- >On the other hand, you are willing to COMMIT murder. That's where we differ.
- >
- >>Is it worth 10 million jobs? Or ten million human lives?
- >
- >Who elected you God anyway? Those lives don't belong to you.
- >
- >>>The answer isn't so clear. If I haven't reached your limit yet kick it up
- >>>another magnitude or two, a hundred million human lives?
- >
- >--Brian
-
- Notice that he said to save the species, not a few owls.
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