Quote Originally Posted by Sophist
I am pretty shocked by this and other responses here in this thread. These are the sorts of things I would expect to hear from ALF, PETA, or other domestic terrorists.

These are human beings. Seeing this one path they have chosen in their lives and wishing ill on them while 100 or so terrified families wait and worry for them... I am sorry, maybe it makes me a bad animal lover, but I just can't wish that level of hardship and pain on hundreds of strangers who I only know one thing about in the vain hope of preventing a cull.


Yes, it is an ugly, horrifying bloodbath, but I don't think it can be so easily dismissed as totally un-needed or only based on fabricated problems. It can be hard to be objective about culling, but it is not always the worst thing that could happen to an animal.

Do people who legally kill an animal (possible in the best interest of the animals around it) deserve to die slowly and miserably while we sit in our comfy homes and giggle? I personally can't say yes and feel good about myself.

Hmm - I have to admit that my initial response was a knee-jerk reaction. As much as I abhor the seal cull I certainly do not want anyone to lose their lives - they are husbands, fathers, sons and brothers too