all creatures great and small

Sorry to encroach on your blog-itory, Dan, but I have to respond to "We have observers who ensure there are no attacks on hunters." I just find it funny that people who go around shooting defenseless animals for sport desire protection from insomniac bears.

Go ahead and pour water through my holey ethics, it's fun: Despite my aversion to general hunting culture, I think it's okay to fish as long as you don't overfish and you eat the fish you catch; I enjoy hamburgers and I own a leather jacket but would never wear a mink coat; I hate PETA as an organization (bunch of turkeys - but check this out); I will crawl under a car in a busy parking lot to retrieve a baby bird and spend the following two months helping my brother hand-feed it, but laugh at Pamela Anderson's chicken crusade. I'm laughing at her, not the chickens, okay? So you're all, what makes a mink more important than a cow? Nothing, actually. But my leather/mink decisions are not as different from a cat/flea decision as you'd think. The same people who would never throw a brick at a cat wouldn't think twice about annihilating a couple thousand fleas in one fell swoop. I don't allow my kids to kill moths or geckos or even roaches, they're to take them outside instead; in the past month I've spent $75 on flea treatments for my apartment. It's all relative ... or is it all ludicrous?

Ninety-nine percent of us turn a blind eye or somehow alter our "ethics" for the sake of convenience. Where does this all leave us in the grand scheme of humanity?