: If you hold the life of animals above the life of the hopi people then and only then would you be justified in extinguishing their practice. (perhaps MDG you do hold this view i seem to recall you expressing the desire to see the 'fucking corposes of every hopi who supports this asinine tradition'.)A tad overwrought, but I was already angry from WTO events.
: As to your contention that the eagles cannot fly 'as nature intended', i find that utter nonsense. Nature cannot intend anything (unless you wish to attribute a mind to nature. The great earth mother perhaps. Hang on that sounds kinda indian doesn't it?). The birds have the capacity to fly, whether they ever make it to the skies depends upon many factors, of which the hopi are only one.
Do you really believe the things you write, Cope? That's like saying that you have the capacity to walk and run, but if I shackle your legs and tape your mouth, no moral crime has been committed.
: As to gentital mutilation i do not think that is a practice vital to the survival of the muslim religion that this is so is shewn by the fact that the religion continues to thrive even in countries where the practice is banned.
That's not what the fundamentalists say, but you're right, somehow they can move on. Same with the Hopi, once they are forced (or volunteer, preferably) to stop suffocating birds.
