[Skooz]

I understand nature and appreciate the checks and balances God has provided. But, this is not a case of checks and balances. This is a case of extreme cruelty to a helpless baby animal for no good reason.

No ecological function is served by killing these seals. This isn't "culling the herd" as some have suggested. The seal population has no need to be culled. This is a quick buck to be made by beating seal puppies to death. Nothing more.

I hate arguing with my elders. :0)

[spald]

You are not arguing now so we are at peace.

This is a cull plain and simple. Please appreciate the specific and God-given role of the predator in nature. It's natural and it is sublime.

The cubs are adorable. It makes nature's wrath that much harder to comprehend.

I don't make up the rules of nature. I just observe, interpret and marvel. Rest assured that if man did not intervene, another entity would.

It would be best to just ignore the seal cub happenstance. Any human intervention to stop the culling would certainly lead to far greater short-term hardship on the cubs, as is the normal vector.

Of these thing, I do not know why. It just is and any human intervention tends to complicate the situation with more dire circumstances for the indigenous animal population.