Hobby Ethics

"Le Trôle" wrote in
:

There's no question that introducing exotic species
can harm the local environment, or that the guvmint
has a genuine need to enforce laws that prevent this.

But rights are not created by pieces of paper, and they
are not gifts of the state.

Individual human beings have rights.
States and Guvmints don't have rights, only powers.

As soon as you allow yourself to accept the idea that
'you have no right to do X' simply because exercising
that right has dangerous consequences, you lose it all.

I see. So, your whole quibble here is a semantic/philosophical quibble over
the word "right".

I wish you'd just said so in the beginning- I could have dismissed this as
the mental masturbation it is.

PETA says you have no right to keep pets, and you
just agreed with them.

I must have missed that part. *I* thought I was saying that you have no
right to knowingly endanger the ecosystem. Could you please explain my
point of view to me more fully?

~Empty


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