A religous thread, topic; Heaven

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Originally posted by AzCivic
i guess nothing is being done to stop our mistakes? the mistakes that were first made because we had no clue they were doing something bad. i guess there's no recycling, no large groups who's only goal is to stop a ship from killing a whale or cutting down some forest, or overusing anti-biotics, or trying to make pollution free energy, or whatever else you'd like to say is ruining the earth?

you basically proved my point w/ the limit on hunting, we put limits on killing dear because we could kill them all if we wanted, yet we don't. we learned by the previous mistakes of those killing off other animals that we need to stop. if a large population of wolves or whatever moved in, would it not try to kill everything w/ out a second thought? so we have the ability to learn from mistakes and do something about the future of this planet, yet no other creature on this earth could care, seems special to me.

Of course there are groups trying to fix things. They make up...what...about .01% of the population? As of this moment in time, recycling programs in many major cities are jokes, hardly anyone needs whale parts for anything, people's stupidity and paranoia is the only thing causing overuse of medication, and there is no way of making pollution free energy. Paying these problems lip service is all fine and good, but it doesn't make them better. Wait...I'll be right right back...I have to go drill for oil in wildlife refuges to make the world a better place by selling that oil to China.

Ok...now that I'm back...I don't think the point that we place restrictions on killing proves anything except that a few of us had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity. That, and we figured out that if we killed them off we couldn't have fun killing them anymore. Show me another species that kills for fun or "sport" and I'll give you a cookie. You make it sound like predators move in and just fuck up everyone's christmas. That's not how it works. Almost all predators will simply kill what they need to survive. I'll let you know the next time I see a wolf with a deer's head over it's mantle, though.