Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
We are creatures, same as all the others. Beavers alter their enviornment... (sorry, it isn't theirs, they weren't first...) yet we should not be allowed to alter it.

So by your logic, the last born child should not be able to alter anything in their household? When the parents die, the first born shall inherit the entire estate?

Your logic is so ridiculous it is laughable.

Now that you mention it, we should surgically alter our brains. Our mere ability to build homes and clear forests is a travesty. It can't be tolerated. It simply isn't fair that we are superior to our animal kin!

You hippies need to make up your mind. Are we a part of the natural world or are we not. If we evolved from monkey's than we are. Does the natural world and the rest of it's inhabitants care if they effect our species negatively? I'm not saying we shouldn't protect some aspects of our environment and the lesser species, but you loose all credibility with these extremist environmental views.

By the way, as a new found liberal, I propose the eradication of all beavers. Their diverting rivers is horrible and most be prevented at all costs!

laughable logic? i consider it laughable to compare a beaver dam to humans spewing manmade greenhouse gases into the environment at a pace never seen before

the majority of your posts in this thread are laughable...you can chalk to it to me believing the media or in lies made up by whomever but i have looked at the facts and you cant deny the effect were having on the environment is on a scale that this planet has never seen b4 in its history and you have posted nothing to convince me otherwise

you seem to think that politics and policy making or anything really is just one big philosophical argument that can be won simply by manipulating rhetoric and using your apparently elite lawyer skills to win on paper...there are empirical facts you cant just ignore because you want to