Thread: Ban the whale!

The time is ripe for a new, realistic, ecologically aware group. Let’s forget the bleeding hearts and view the world in practical terms.
Mass extinction is nature’s way of sorting out the dead ends. It has happened several times in the past and it will happen again, and the eco system bounces back. Dinosaurs replace most reptiles, mammals replace dinosaurs, other than birds, only the fittest survive.
If intelligence is the new survival adaptation we shall survive and be the first of a new group of species to emerge over the next few million years. If not, then so be it, the world will continue on its way without us, another forgotten dead end.
So let’s start by sending the Red Army out to hunt the last few useless pandas and rid ourselves of a stupid superstition by shooting the last rhinos, time to move on.
Ban the whale!

Note: This piece is solid conformation of the Ox’s views on the writing reflecting the true nature of the writer. I can be a bit sarcy.

This feller has a thing about finding new ways to use the letter 'c'. First it was 'tarmaccing', now it's 'sarcy'. F*ccin' 'ell, I wonder what he'll come up with next?

Whales are too damn big.
If we can't ban them surely we can shrink them down a little. 'Honey, I've shrunk the wales... and there's an angry mob of greenies outside.'
And I hate their bloody singing, someone teach them Madonna and be done with it.

Rhinos and pandas would be really nice... on my plate! Get out your gun Olly, we're eating endangered tonight!

iDrew - You misunderstand how natural selection works.

Every species uses all it's abilities in seeking prey and finding ways to survive. We are doing exactly what every other animal on the planet does. The ability to make and use harpoons and chainsaws is giving us a short-term advantage. Many of the methods we use may lead to a mass die-off as we continue to modify the surface of the Earth to meet our short-term goals.

In the long term it won't matter. We will survive as a race or we won't. Whales will survive as a race or they won't. Cockroaches will survive, but just now we can't be sure who will be around to step on them.

I think there should be a campaign to save that rare breed of Australian outback Ox. At the very least it should be preserved and exhibited in a museum of curious antiquities.

Oxus Curmudgeonus?

There was a young lady from Wales
Who swore she would go and hunt whales.
She jumped in a boat
And away she did float,
Frightening the whales 'round Wales with her wails.

lol, a thread advocating the extinction of animals? Don't see that very often. I think we should protect the amazing animals, like blue whales the biggest organism to have ever lived. Pandas, on the other hand. . . meh.

Pandas? Pandas are a vegetarian bear, which makes about as much sense as a bloodthirsty horse. Carnivourous horses, on the other hand—now those would be worth protecting. And even more worth riding at one's enemies.

The basic law of life is that there are two sorts of being, the eaten and the eaters. When a species has so obviously joined the ranks of the failed, as thousands, if not millions must have done already, is it not a sort of perversion to artificially maintain a low level population. Consider the proud and independent peoples who have been reduced to a few poverty stricken alcoholics living off welfare, would it not have been kinder in the long run to have wiped them out completely while we were at it and thus reduced the sum of misery. Wipe out the failing species and cull the less successful members of the over abundant species, leaving room and resources for those who can use them, you know it makes sense.

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

The basic law of life is that there are two sorts of being, the eaten and the eaters. When a species has so obviously joined the ranks of the failed, as thousands, if not millions must have done already, is it not a sort of perversion to artificially maintain a low level population. Consider the proud and independent peoples who have been reduced to a few poverty stricken alcoholics living off welfare, would it not have been kinder in the long run to have wiped them out completely while we were at it and thus reduced the sum of misery. Wipe out the failing species and cull the less successful members of the over abundant species, leaving room and resources for those who can use them, you know it makes sense.

I'm sure that Adolf could never have had an over-abundance of sympathetic advisors, Olly. Isn't it sad to have been born in the wrong time and place?

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
—Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

Olly, you’re sounding suspiciously like Ebenezer Scrooge.

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

The basic law of life is that there are two sorts of being, the eaten and the eaters. When a species has so obviously joined the ranks of the failed, as thousands, if not millions must have done already, is it not a sort of perversion to artificially maintain a low level population. Consider the proud and independent peoples who have been reduced to a few poverty stricken alcoholics living off welfare, would it not have been kinder in the long run to have wiped them out completely while we were at it and thus reduced the sum of misery. Wipe out the failing species and cull the less successful members of the over abundant species, leaving room and resources for those who can use them, you know it makes sense.

Yes this makes perfect sense, instead of interfering with the process of natural selection we help it along. And nations save a lot of money too. I mean every being has to die anyway, right!? I like it. Let's do it!

Yes this makes perfect sense, instead of interfering with the process of natural selection we help it along.

That is a bit of a wishy washy liberal take on it. When it comes down to something as basic as survival of the fittest it seems foolish to allow elements of chance and emotion intervene. I am sure we could develop a class of technician with the expertise to decide who is fit to survive.

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