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# This is the one that I contributed, and I don't agree with Bugler's answer.  As Christians, we should look after the creation that God has given us, being good stewards of it.  So I support the preservation of endangered species.  However, much of the opposition to whaling is from an ideological point of view, and is not based just on preserving endangered species.  The minke whale, for example, is only "endangered" by drawing a long bow.  But do environmentalists say that we should not kill whales that are really endangered, but other whales are okay to kill (even if in limited numbers so that they don't become endangered)?  No, they are against killing whales ''at all''.<br />Your argument is that there is no real comparison between (a) an unimportant thing like something "inappropriate" on television, and (b) a very important thing like the "slaughter of a vital and extremely endangered species".  Part of my answer is that (b) is not as important as you make it out to be.  The other part of my answer is that (a) is more important that you make it out to be.  The stuff on TV that many object to is stuff that helps lower the moral standards of our society, standards which forbid robbery, murder, rape, and so on.  So keeping that stuff off TV would do a lot of good for society.  But liberals have the dismissive attitude that if we don't like it, the solution is to simply not watch it.  The point is that they don't apply this standard to killing whales because ''they'' consider that important, but dismiss our concerns that ''we'' consider important.

# This is the one that I contributed, and I don't agree with Bugler's answer.  As Christians, we should look after the creation that God has given us, being good stewards of it.  So I support the preservation of endangered species.  However, much of the opposition to whaling is from an ideological point of view, and is not based just on preserving endangered species.  The minke whale, for example, is only "endangered" by drawing a long bow.  But do environmentalists say that we should not kill whales that are really endangered, but other whales are okay to kill (even if in limited numbers so that they don't become endangered)?  No, they are against killing whales ''at all''.<br />Your argument is that there is no real comparison between (a) an unimportant thing like something "inappropriate" on television, and (b) a very important thing like the "slaughter of a vital and extremely endangered species".  Part of my answer is that (b) is not as important as you make it out to be.  The other part of my answer is that (a) is more important that you make it out to be.  The stuff on TV that many object to is stuff that helps lower the moral standards of our society, standards which forbid robbery, murder, rape, and so on.  So keeping that stuff off TV would do a lot of good for society.  But liberals have the dismissive attitude that if we don't like it, the solution is to simply not watch it.  The point is that they don't apply this standard to killing whales because ''they'' consider that important, but dismiss our concerns that ''we'' consider important.

[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:03, 29 September 2008 (EDT)

[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:03, 29 September 2008 (EDT)