From: Pinochet@yabbs
To: laelth@yabbs
Subject: don't cry for the ecosystem
Date: Mon Aug 15 13:49:45 1994

I agree with you, every specie is unique.  Every specie has rights.  I 
have a right to quality health care, or so Bill says.  I also have the 
right to affordable housing, or so Bill says.  I feel that animals are 
impinging upon my rights!  In fact, they are denying me my rights!  

How can I have my house when the spotted owl makes it so I can't get 
lumber?  How can I have affordable health care if the Furry Tailed Vole 
won't allow me to help build that superhighway because it migrates across 
the Old I-80?  I am being denied my rights...I am the victim here!

And when the annual frog migration hit back in the summer of '83, how many 
people died because they didn't allow ambulances to exceed 10MPH?  (see 
the Oregonian 8/11/83, pg 8B).  Don't people matter more than a frog, no 
matter how rare that frog has become?

And why is that frog and other species endangered?  It is because they 
have failed to adapt to their new environment.  They have been left at the 
curbside of hisotry.  It isn't our fault, it's theirs.  Other species have 
thrived since the introduction of man, like the deer.  The deer adapted, 
they deserve to go on.  

In everything we do (from going to church on sunday to going to Woodstock 
'94 to get really loaded on shrooms) we change our environment.  Don't 
apologize for it, revel in it!

"I've got something to say...It's bettter to burn out, than to fade away!"