Weymouth couple could face fine for helping injured baby seal(better to abandon it, let it die)

Hodgdon said the seal was barely floating and was doing everything it could to take a breath. He got the 2-foot pup onto a raft and it immediately stuck its neck out and kissed Hodgdon. He brought the seal to shore and got a better view of its injuries.

"There was a whole row of marks going across his belly up on his side," Hodgdon explained. "You could just tell his whole body was in the shark. It had to have been."

The rescue quickly turned from a heartwarming experience to a frustrating one. When a New England Aquarium volunteer arrived, they didn't want to touch it or help, the couple claims.

"I think he probably drowned and he's been on my mind every minute since Sunday, I haven't stopped thinking about him," said Mary.

Touching the seal was a violation of the Federal Marine Mammal Protection Act and the couple could face a $5,000 fine.

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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SNUFFY!!!!!!!