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From: dbongard@netcom.com (Dan Bongard)
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Ryan McGinnis (mcginnr@iastate.edu) wrote:

: You really don't understand the principle of nature, do you?

_We_ fucked up the deer's ecosystem. How? We moved onto their land 
and killed or drove away the predators that kept their population
in check. We screwed up the environment.

We are now left with two choices: let the deer grow out of control,
let them destroy their own habitat, and let them die -- OR let 
hunters kill a few of them each year to keep the population where
it should be. 

: Gosh, how ever did the planet's ecosystem get along before _we_ 
: showed up?  :P  

According to your logic we shouldn't have bothered trying to clean
up the Exxon Valdez spill. Such activities are profoundly "unnatural"
because the bypass the normal system of beach-cleaning carried
out by waves and bacteria. The situation with hunting is identical: 
we killed the predators. Now we have to take their place. The 
alternative is to leave the deer to starve to death from overpopulation.

-- Dan
