Englishman
Well-Known Member
Hambone,
I think the point Riverboy was trying to make was that some people on here were trying to justify the cull on the basis of emotive reasoning. I.e. that wolves exhibited "blood lust" or killed in cruel ways. Almost as though wolves were bad or evil, and could or should have have ethics or moral judgement!
That view is just illogical. In nature among animals there is no cruelty, no morals, no ethics and certainly no god! Nature just IS. The wolves just do what they do like any predator, since they have to feed their families too.
In fact wolves are our friends and we are inextricably linked to them through social evolution. Thousands of years ago when humanity lived in wandering hunter gatherer groups a genetic trait in some wolves enabled them to come closer to human groups and perhaps scavenge. Eventually wolves were domesticated and they became joint partners with us in hunting prey. It has been proven that genetically, all modern dogs are descended from wolves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog
There is also plenty of archeological evidence to indicate humanity would not have been so successful without the help of those early hunting wolf dogs. And of course there are many tribes and societies that still use hunting dogs and dogs for herding.
We need to examine our motives very closely before we go out and kill them. After all, it is we who have moral judgement, and a recorded memory of when wolves were our partners in the struggle for survival. Wolves don't!!
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Went for a hike in that area in the spring, what did i find 8 different moose, fresh deer tracks and even cattle tracks! So yes we must control preditors along with the game animals to make things work.
