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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael M who wrote (52667)8/22/1999 9:16:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Your post stated that you didn't recall my asking about humans in relation to endangered species. If you wish to check, you will see in the very first post(#51764) that I asked YOU if man should intervene in an extraordinary way to save an endangered species.

I think it is worth remembering, in light of subsequent discussion, that nobody (that I can recall, at least) took the "pure environmentalist" position that extraordinary intervention was automatically justified to save an endangered species. Most respondents felt that further information would be required to make a decision: they wanted to know how the species became endangered, why the species was thought valuable and to whom, what the extraordinary measures would be and what they would cost, etc.

Given this, the second question was probably not put to the audience for which it was intended. I admit that if people had responded that "extraordinary measures" were automatically justified, it would be curious to see how they responded to the subsequent question. It might be interesting to put the same question to some confessed eco-extremists; I believe there is a thread of them on SI.

My own feeling is that the subsequent question was a form of reductio ad absurdem, and I confess that I took little real interest. The stipulations were obviously constructed to make a particular answer inevitable; the reluctance to give the inevitable answer is something I would attribute less to PC conformity than to an understandable reluctance to be boxed in by a set of highly artificial assumptions.

Yes, the sisterhood can be contrary, and occasionally incomprehensible. Some of us like them that way.
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