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Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a CNN report about a suit brought against the U.S. Navy for sonar pollution. From the article: "The environmentalists want the Navy to use harmless passive sonar -- listening for sounds made by marine mammals themselves -- to locate the animals before using mid-frequency sonar. They also want the Navy to avoid migration and calving areas and to turn on sonar systems gradually so that the animals have time to flee."
'Whales are fucking stupid. Can you mention one whale in the history of mankind that has had a record in the top ten? Can you? Can you mention one whale who's written the equivalent of, er, 'Othello', Shakespeare, 'Health & Efficiency'? They've produced nothing in the way of literature. All they've fucking produced is a load of other whales and all they eat is fucking plankton, and they call them intelligent. Can you imagine drifting along in the sea with your mouth open and a lot of fucking plankton going in?'
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
> The Navy PR people are trained in psy-ops.
> They do this for a living. They know how to
> spin the story to hook people like you.
Ok, then. How about the direct approach? It is stupid for the Navy to do this, since defense is more important than some whales.
There. No spin necessary.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
"There are mass extinctions going on. Maybe they are just thinkers on the wrong side of politics."
There have always been "mass extinctions" going on. Maybe they are just bitter because Katrina sucked their donation base dry.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
"With that being said, why would the military want to kill animals unintentionally? "
Why not? People who would kill in order to keep a country occupied would have no moral compunction to kill animals for any reason.
"I know that the military is viewed as some large killing machine bent on world domination, but remember that there's real actual people forming our armed services."
Right, and those people all believe that it's ok kill human beings who object to your occupation of their country. They also have no moral objection to invading and occupying countries either. Why would they care about killing whales?
evil is as evil does