[ RadSafe ] Marine safety and whaling

[Dan]

Dear Juan:

It's Friday night and the boys are a little wild.

Dan W McCarn
HotGreenChile at gmail.com
+1-505-310-3922
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On Mar 12, 2010, at 7:15 PM, juan Stevens <kc5twe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree with you both and my heart goes out to you and your very  
> justified concern
> about saving the whales.  I am a member of the ASPCA and love  
> animals BUT WHAT
> THE HECK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH RADIATION??  IS THIS A RAD-SAFE
> FORUM or NOT??
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Doug Huffman <doug.huffman at wildblue.net>
> To: Jess L. Addis III <ajess at clemson.edu>
> Cc: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 6:50:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Marine safety and whaling
>
> Forcing moral equivalency between beasts and men is waay above my pay
> grade.  Racism stems from a false premise.  Culture-ism will out.
> Species-ism is death.
>
> On 3/12/2010 19:37, Jess L. Addis III wrote:
>> I watched as a big Japanese "research" commercial whaling vessel  
>> ran over a
>> protestor vessel (ecological terrorist?) and I have a question  
>> that's been
>> on my mind a lot lately. Yes, I am an omnivore, but:
>>
>> I know this is a safety list, but soooo many things have come and  
>> gone as of
>> late that have stood up to scrutiny and were not strictly safety  
>> related, I
>> want to ask a question.
>>
>> How many here think it's OK to harvest/kill/murder, whales?  Pick  
>> the word
>> that makes you most comfortable/uncomfortable?
>>
>> Some "first world" industrialized nations that are high tech,  
>> generally very
>> well educated nations, the Japanese and maybe Norway come to mind,  
>> think
>> it's good, as in good to eat whales, to kill/harvest whales.
>>
>> It has dawned on me over time that whales have huge brains, big  
>> eyes that
>> see very well (day or night under water or above) and their species  
>> have
>> been around much, much longer than bipedal primates (humans) of any  
>> stripe.
>>
>> These mammals, air breathers,  have been on the planet and have  
>> watched the
>> sun and moon go up and go down and watched the night sky with all  
>> its stars
>> for millions of years longer than our species have, may be really  
>> "smart"
>> and self aware, much (just) like we humans are.
>>
>> They sing their songs and may exchange stories and pass on history to
>> successive generations just like we do and may have been doing it for
>> millions of years longer.
>>
>> Most of their species didn't kill each other for any reason and  
>> make war,
>> much less cut hearts out and throw people down steps of pyramids  
>> and such,
>> to make the sun come up and make rain fall.
>>
>> Just sayn'
>>
>> What do ya'll think?
>>
>> I'll understand if you guys want to throw me down the steps for  
>> asking.
>>
>> LA
>>
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