I'm referring to the two whales stuck in the Sacramento River in California. Natural selection at work. Nature is uncompromising, cruel and, in the final analysis, wise beyond all human comparison.
But...
Here we have dozens of self-important doofuses, who know that the world revolves around themselves, their interests and their public-jobs-as-welfare activities.
They are determined to "save" those whales. I have no problem with that.
What I do have a problem with is the millions that they have spent so far (of our taxpayer money) to feel good and important about what they do.
Once upon a time, private money did these thing. No problem.
When public money is involved, and these "public servants" make rules about where we may go or not go, and what we may do or not do, and spend weeks getting paid for it, it eventually makes my blood boil.
These whales are toast; in not before, certainly with the trauma they are being subjected to in the name of "compassion", by the parasites of human society.
Am I overreacting?
I don’t think you’re over-reacting but are you sure about that taxpayer-funded assertion? It’s just that I didn’t know that and, like you, I am angered.
But beyond that, again like you, I’d been listening to the story of these two stuck whales and after a time I began to get some common sense. I mean, yeah, sure at first it seemed a kind thing, a nice human thing, to do for the wildlife. We all will take time to help a creature that needs a human hand. But come on now...these two whales evidently don’t want to be saved and perhaps it’s best if they aren’t.
First the mother of the calf was dumb enough to get caught in an area where whales ought not to be. She, of course, brings her calf with her. So okay, well all make mistakes, extenuating circumstances...yada, yada.
Next, the kind humans try to drive this duo out to sea but tempting them to follow the recorded calls of their co-whale species.
Now the mother whale STILL does not do what whales normally do, no she doesn’t and now we’ve got two whale stupidity points. I’m betting this mama whale was edumicated in Delaware public schools.
Next, the whales do not leave when sounds that cause them grief are broadcast under the watery depths.
So we’ve got a-Mama whale the failed navigator, b-Mama whale the hearing=deprived or too stupid to recognize her species’ call and c-too dumb to run from bad noises.
Finally we are told that the whales were hurt from propellers somehow and somewhere but the implication was, correct me, but the implication was that the Mama whale somehow ran under the RESCUERS’ propellers.
Ah....I think...it’s time for survival of the fittest to jump in here. So hey, us wizenheimers at FreeRepublic got a clue but whose job is it to tell these obsessed rescuers to give it up?
You might just consider putting these whales to the “tortoise in the dessert” test.
Imagine you are walking out in the dessert and you come across a dessert tortoise that is turned upside down and he is quite alive. The tortoise cannot move, and he cannot up end himself back into his normal prone position. The tortoise will eventually die if he is left in this position.
What do you do?
Do you “interfere” and put the tortoise right side up or do you just walk away and let nature take its course?
Personally, I would give the tortoise a helping hand since it is a minimal action.
Maybe these “save the whales” people are just using this tortoise test, but they are taking it to an extreme.
I wouldn’t move Heaven and Hell to save the dessert tortoise, and these “save the whales” people should quickly realize that some whales just have a death wish.
And, if the dessert tortoise repeatedly performed the same action that put him into his dire circumstance, then I think it is time to let nature “cull the herd” so to speak.
Circle of life, Simba...circle of life.