Posted on 07/24/2013 6:37:19 AM PDT by Innovative
“The poor thing may have been saved and released after it recovered.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDH1va7iC0
One of the biggest proofs that liberalism is a crock is the frequency that liberal causes collide.
I think that is about the best summation of modernity I have seen.
At this rate if I can retire at all it may be to another country altogether.
I am reminded of a story:
A man was walking down the beach. In the distance, he saw a figure who appeared to be dancing, just above the waterline. As he got closer, he saw that it was a girl that was picking stuff things and tossing them in the water. he asked her what she was doing, to which she replied, “I am saving starfish that are stranded and going to die, because the tide has gone out.”
The man looked at her, then up and down the seemingly endless beach. He said, “You know the beach is so big, and there are so many of them that you won’t make a difference.”
She smiled a beautiful smile, bent down picked up another starfish and looked at it. She tossed it back in to the water and turned to the man. “I made a difference to that one,” she said as she turned skipping down the beach to find the next starfish.
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While this story is supposed to address charity, and freely giving to those in need. I think it could also aptly speak to Conservationism, as well. As good stewards, we help when and where we can. “Environmental” laws are good intentioned. It’s been proven that they are wrought with unintended consequences, and adhering to them dogmatically, does not, in most cases serve the cause of Conservationism in the end.
And to be quite honest, in this specific case, I think it is a matter of the government thinking that it knows better than anyone else, because the problem isn’t that they tried to help the seal, it is that they didn’t call a government agency first, so it could decide whether to assist or not..
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