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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4278)	2/1/2001 2:01:11 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

RE:Perhaps if you ate more apples and fewer carrots I guess that would the same as abortions versus murder. You are only killing a potential apple tree if you eat an apple, but you kill the whole plant when you eat the carrot. RE:typically one species feeds on another, not on itself Actually, many animals will eat their young. Even my pet mice used to eat theirs some times(I was feeding them too!). One of the greatest dangers to young alligators is being eaten by another alligator, there are human cannibals too, so that's one thing that humans and alligators have in common. The question is, do we really want to be in that company?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4278)	2/1/2001 2:18:30 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually cannibalism is much more common in the natural world than we'd like to think. Mostly it is at the invertebrate level, but there are species of frogs that change into "monsters" when they get overpopulated. Consuming the flesh of their kindreds cause them activate a gene that makes them all the more vicious, changing their phenotype profoundly. They start to look like a different species. What offends us about killing and consuming our own is that we recognize that it could be US being consumed.