And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Literally since day one I have been on or in the ocean. Raised by a professional diver, counting many divers, layman and professional, among family friends, my many marine pursuits being numerous in scope, I am biased.
Biased in knowledge, not fear. It is mostly fear by which people seek to drive the 'monster' from the seas. They are known as predators but are actually scavengers. It is the brutal efficiency of the shark which inspires fear.
It really is important to preserve all species of shark.
THE first principle of ecology: You cannot do one thing. Ma Nature seems to say "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law!" And the immediate next sentence is "You WILL accept the consequences of your choices!"
Right. Kill all the coyotes. Rabbit population explodes. Crops are ravaged. Kill the wolves. Deer and elk expand to starvation levels, populations collapse from overpopulation.
You'd think people would learn these lessons without shooting their feet off.
Leave the sharks alone. There's places you don't swim. There's a bare chance that could be anywhere. But those odds are about the same as getting hit by lightning. Hunt a few sharks? Sure. Weeds out the weak ones. Espcially if they're grazing at a populated beach in summer.
But exterminate them? Insanity. Realize your position on the food chain, and try to stay off the menu. But let's not go insane.
I'm going to use the "legalize drugs" analogy. People claim that their child, loved one, etc., was a victim so they should not be legalized. If you had a loved one snatched from you in a brutal, horrible, painful way for the crime of enjoying a nice family day at the beach, would you still want to protect the sharks?
I'm going to counter with the "common sense" analogy. Presuming laws are created by gov't employees, everything this rotten assed gov't touches turns to shit. Leave the dam sharks alone, in all ways. Jeez, don't people have anything important in their miserable lives to focus on?
11,400 per hour is 100 million per year. Really?
ReplyDeleteYeah, no kidding. We'd have run out of sharks years ago, at that rate.
DeleteYou have a point there, now I feel all warm and fuzzy for them.
ReplyDeleteI am in favor of protecting sharks. We need healthy seas, more than the Chinese need the fins.
ReplyDeleteIt's past time to protect the oceans. Sharks too.
ReplyDeleteLiterally since day one I have been on or in the ocean. Raised by a professional diver, counting many divers, layman and professional, among family friends, my many marine pursuits being numerous in scope, I am biased.
ReplyDeleteBiased in knowledge, not fear. It is mostly fear by which people seek to drive the 'monster' from the seas. They are known as predators but are actually scavengers. It is the brutal efficiency of the shark which inspires fear.
It really is important to preserve all species of shark.
Preserve, not by governmental decree, but by knowledge in the people.
DeleteTHE first principle of ecology: You cannot do one thing. Ma Nature seems to say "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law!" And the immediate next sentence is "You WILL accept the consequences of your choices!"
ReplyDeleteRight. Kill all the coyotes. Rabbit population explodes. Crops are ravaged.
ReplyDeleteKill the wolves. Deer and elk expand to starvation levels, populations collapse from overpopulation.
You'd think people would learn these lessons without shooting their feet off.
Leave the sharks alone. There's places you don't swim. There's a bare chance that could be anywhere. But those odds are about the same as getting hit by lightning.
Hunt a few sharks? Sure. Weeds out the weak ones.
Espcially if they're grazing at a populated beach in summer.
But exterminate them? Insanity.
Realize your position on the food chain, and try to stay off the menu.
But let's not go insane.
Fake News! There would be no sharks at those numbers...democrat lies!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to use the "legalize drugs" analogy. People claim that their child, loved one, etc., was a victim so they should not be legalized. If you had a loved one snatched from you in a brutal, horrible, painful way for the crime of enjoying a nice family day at the beach, would you still want to protect the sharks?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to counter with the "common sense" analogy. Presuming laws are created by gov't employees, everything this rotten assed gov't touches turns to shit. Leave the dam sharks alone, in all ways. Jeez, don't people have anything important in their miserable lives to focus on?
DeleteNo reason to kill sharks.
ReplyDeleteNo reason? Some of them are "biters"....
DeleteFeed some politicians to the sharks. Win-win, no?
ReplyDeleteMaybe a lottery. Pick the the "winning" pol, like PowerBall.
The odds are a lot better...