[at-l] "Human crap"

[rafeb at speakeasy.net (Rafe Bustin)]

At 12:57 PM 6/15/2005 -0500, Shane Steinkamp wrote:

> > >So maybe you can explain then what purpose wilderness has if there aren't
> > >any people?
> >
> > What????
> >
> > All those millions of other species exist only
> > for the pleasure of being seen, eaten or
> > exterminated by homo sapiens?
> >
> > What's your point?
>
>The point is that without people the trial wouldn't exist because there
>would be no need for it to exist.  The trail doesn't exist by itself.


I agree that the Trail exists primarily for the
benefit of humans.

But the Trail is nothing without being (mostly) wild,
or "as wild as possible."

Being pro-Trail means protecting its wildlife.

There's no contradiction there.


rafe b
aka terrapin


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