@tokyo 14 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Tubby sounds like he has just come back from Sunday School and learnt from the scriptures! Which is kind of ironic really. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Increasing numbers of intelligent humans make informed decisions not to "pass on their DNA". Can't you read? Yes I can. I am intelligent and have passed on my DNA. I can also sprout out sentences - watch: Increasing numbers of intelligent people understand DNA, and also know that humans are perhaps the only, if not one of a small fraction, of animals that participate in sexual activities for pleasure. Moreover, the instinct within our genes, and any species, forces the species to carry on and evolve. Look at why those people aren't having kids. Is it because of environmental factors? Because of some guilt that there are too many people in the world? Don't worry GG, if you are intelligent and not passed on your DNA, then the SJ community is safe from your lack of future offspring. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 The sprog-producing gang always get so fricking up-tight and righteous about the topic. It's always great to give it a timely poke to get the reaction. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 The sprog-producing gang always get so fricking up-tight and righteous about the topic. It's always great to give it a poke. And vice-versa. Those people who think they are helping the world out by not having kids, yet probably clog the world with pollution always cracks me up. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 "People think they are helping out the world by not having kids"? Well yes they would be strange people indeed... I don't know any of those myself. Link to post Share on other sites
desu 1 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 I've lost track... do we kill the sharks or not? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Tubby sounds like he has just come back from Sunday School and learnt from the scriptures! Which is kind of ironic really. Evolution.......from Sunday school? I think you may have been at the ceremonial wine Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 Anyway I went for a surf and didn't get eaten. Had a thought how about the goverment drop bouys out in the water with strong elctronic pulses to scare them away. Winwin. Seemore Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 And GN I don't read the newspapers I just googled shark attack and this was the 1st article that popped up, to tell you the truth i didn't even read it (2 many words). How about we change the question . If a 5M great white shark ate/ fataly injured someone and was hanging around the same spot where other humans were and we were positive it was the same shark would you kill the shark? yes or no? Problem is how do we become "certain" that it is the same one? They range over a thousand sq kms, and likely to be well gone after an attack. What happens if you kill one and discover that it doesn't have any human remains in its gut? Too late to say "sorry" and lket it go! If it was a dog the dog would be dead. If it was a drop bear it would be dead. If it was a crocodile, snake, spider, nearly any other creature would be dead why not a white pointer. invasion of our space is one thing, invading theirs is another! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Don't kill the sharks. Just fin them. Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Do you mean fin em out a bit? Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Absolutely For once I agree with you there. GN ok if it was a Kangaroo and it attacked your daughter in the bush would it be killed? No. My daughter has been attacked by a roo. She wasn't bitten in half but did get a shock and cried. Good learning experience for her. There's been a couple of snakes at the nursery as well, an area that my daughter spends a lot of time in, and I haven't killed them. I usually catch them and move them to another part of the property. The way I look at it is this. With regards to the sharks we are going into their environment, it's not them coming into ours. So if you choose to enter their environment you take that risk. It's not their fault that we make a good snack. Just like those of us who ski in the backcountry take on the risk of avalanches or injury far from any help I can't see why you just can't accept that when you enter the ocean over there you take on the risk of getting eaten alive. As you probably know from previous discussions over the years I'm not an advocate of the nanny state. I like to decide for myself the risk levels I'm comfortable with for not only myself but also my daughter. I don't expect or want those in power to step in and impose a level of safety I don't need or want. And I think advocating killing these sharks is a nanny state sort of attitude. You want the state to step in and make the world a little safer for you. Personally I think you should just accept that the world isn't a safe place, the oceans aren't a safe place. If you can't accept that level of risk (which is still incredibly small) then go swim in a public pool or a lake where the big biteys can't get you. At the end of the day the most dangerous thing you'll probably ever do in your daily life is drive a car. Statistically you would be much more likely to die on the drive to a beach than whilst you're in the water. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 And I thought hell would freeze over before that ever happened. Maybe that ice age is closer than I thought!! Link to post Share on other sites
Zer0star 0 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I wonder if the sharks are having the same kind of debate as this... 'Hey, they killed so-and-so, should we go and eat them all??' Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Especially that activist Seemore Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 I wonder if the sharks are having the same kind of debate as this... 'Hey, they killed so-and-so, should we go and eat them all??' No one kills Great Whites (well not in Australia) it's illegal anything else (apart from Whales) in the water is fair game. So unless Great Whites talk to other sharks (like in Nemo) they are most probably lying around doing nothing. seemore Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Are dolphins fair game? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Honest question after what see more said in the previous post. Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Yes but sea moor is a too Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 And remember, folks, not all sharks are scary Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 A great thinker of our times commented on this issue a few years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Jcrk6jGfo Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 ha ha. what he says is true but he left out the part where he decides to pick a side and then bomb the crap out tof the other side. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 How DID he get to be "the most powerful man in the world"? Link to post Share on other sites
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