Outrage at new mass slaughter of baby seals

Guardian ^ | 04/11/04 | Mark Townsend

[annyokie]

After housecats?

[Dinsdale]

Taste fishy. Kinda like dolpin.

[AnnaZ]

A baby seal walks into a bar. Bartender says, "What can I get ya?" Seal says, "Anything but a Canadian Club".

[ASTM366]

This is a slaughter, not a hunt.

I guess I won't being going to Newfoundland for vacation.

Bunch of bloodthirsty killers living up there.

[Piranha]

So these two baby harp seals walk up to the bar, and one says, "I'll have a Canadian Club on the Rocks"

[dalereed]

If they wern't meant to be made into coats they wouldn't have ever grown fur, at least desirable fur!

Time for a bigger club!

[Skooz]

I agree.

Don't be put off by the "seeing animals in pain is the only way I can get wood" crowd. They tend to show up on all of these threads. They are as predictable as the "how can anyone be concerned about this when abortion ..... " posters.

[drhogan]

yo, man--are you bald? i'm a gittin' my club ready.

[drhogan]

i mean, if men weren't made to be clubbed and skinned, they wouldn't have grown hair. it's SO obvious.

[T'wit]

This morning, the New York TIMES featured -- front page, above the fold, the best position they have -- a photo of a jubilant Iraqi waving a pair of boots stripped from a dead GI. The symbolism here is almost eerie -- and nauseating. In the TIMES view, it's cause for celebration when you kill GIs and take their boots, and it's fine to kill babies up until they are being born, to harvest stem cells and organs. But don't you dare kill fur seals to harvest pelts.

[jpsb]

Sick and a evil. Shame on the pigs that heartlessly slaughter helpless defenseless infants.

[drhogan]

it seems to me that killing unborn children, US soldiers, AND baby harp seals is bad. I can't believe that God would want his creatures slaughtered in such a cruel way.
it's not like the baby harp seals are killing unborn children. i don't even understand the logic here.

[dalereed]

"are you bald? i'm a gittin' my club ready"

Not bald but there isn't a hair oin my head that is over 3/8" long so it wont' make you a coat that will keep you warm!

[areafiftyone]

This is sickening. These babies don't have a chance to get away - this is not a hunt it's a mass slaughter. Those poor little baby seals just lay there and get slaughtered.

[areafiftyone]

[Skooz]

I agree. It is repulsive and disgusting.

[paul51]

Like to try it anyhow just to see

[elbucko]

it seems to me that killing unborn children, US soldiers, AND baby harp seals is bad.

Me too. The only difference is by degree. There is no honor in either three killings. What sort of man considers his income to be dependant on bashing in the skull of a seal? What sort of man considers his reduced chances for liberty and a just state by killing a US soldier? What sort of person justifies the easy killing of the innocent? The answer is that they don't consider at all.

[drhogan]

i really liked your post. you said it well.
all unnecessary killing raises serious moral issues about the perpetrator and his cheering squad, whether they are liberals, islamic terrorists, or freepers.
just because some types of kiling are worse (e.g., killing babies or soldiers) doesn't mean that other killing, if it is not necessary, is morally defensible. God said we are "stewards" of the creatures on earth, NOT slaughterers.

[drhogan]

well, maybe if you go out and hunt the baby seals, a polar bear will get you. polar bears don't discriminate against people with short hair. this way you could be doing something positive for nature.