Subject: Re: I Was a Humorless Intellectual
Date: Dec 27 16:11:26 1997
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

>Dale Goble wrote:
>
><<Actually, war is often quite beneficial to animal populations -- when
>humans are slaughtering one another they generally stop slaughtering other
>species.>>
>
>I'm not too sure of that. What about the bored *soldiers* of Afghanistan
>not too many years back that shot tens of thousand migrating raptors,
>storks, and who knows what all??

In many places there's no difference between wartime and peacetime, soldier
and civilian, young boy or grown man: this kind of slaughter is incessant
and year-round, more noticeable during north and southbound migrations due
to the increased abundance of targets. In some places it's regulated. You
wouldn't understand, Diann: it's a guy thing. '-)


Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)