Evolución y Diversidad: Animales

domingo, 27 de febrero de 2011

Animales

Unos matan perritas a golpes, otros torturan y asesinan toros mientras miles los animan. Y otros patean lechuzas en una cancha de fútbol mientras todo el país los ve por televisión.

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Anónimo dijo...: Y ahora que se ha abierto un proceso legal en contra de este "artista del balón y las patadas", sería interesante que la ACO-Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología-, o la Asociación Colombiana de Zoología se pronuncien al respecto, así sea con una pequeña nota al juez responsable del caso, o enviarla a las noticias.; 28 de febrero de 2011, 6:22 p. m.
Anónimo dijo...: En cambio yo pienso al revés, y creo que no se debería sobredimensionar la situación. No porque no me parezca absolutamente atroz, el video es brutal, pero creo que el acto fue producto de una gran ignorancia y falta de educación. Creo que una sanción pedagógica o de ese tipo tendría un efecto más eficaz y duradero que una sanción judicial. De hecho el escarnio público seguramente ya ha hecho efecto.; 28 de febrero de 2011, 11:37 p. m.
Anónimo dijo...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cr3LvhdKS0; 1 de marzo de 2011, 3:32 p. m.

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"Biodiversity is thus signally valuable because of its intellectual interest. A proactive role in its conservation is required because it is irreplaceable - extinctions are forever. Arguments from intellectual interest may seem unconvincing to those who demand immediate pragmatic virtues in the narrowest sense of immediate utility. This attitude is typical in the United States, where, for instance, the accepted legal defense of a controversial sexually explicit work of art is to claim that it has redeeming social value, not that it is, after all, a work of art. Nevertheless, the best argument for the conservation of biodiversity remains its intellectual promise. Narrow pragmatism would lead to a devaluation not just of biodiversity but of the entire scientific enterprise, if not of every intellectual and aesthetic aspect of human culture. We should not be embarrased to defend the importance of our intellectual interests and pursuits. All the comforts of life that are traded in the marketplace are ultimately the products of human intellectual life, of our culture, and very often -but obviously not always- of that part of our intellectual culture that we identify as science. Thus even narrow pragmatism dictates the attribution of a high value to intellectual life and science; without them, pragmatism would be useless. Janzen was correct to note that biologists have a professional imperative to conserve biodiversity. Nonbiologists share that imperative to the extent that they value biology as a field of endeavor that should be pursued in any society that can afford it. Moreover, there is nothing that says that nonbiologists cannot share the pleasure of the knowledge that the professional pursuit of biology generates. The world is interesting. We enjoy knowing about it, though some of us may cherish this knowledge more than others. Finally, for many individuals, not limited to professional scientists, scientific knowledge of the world, the sense that we are beginning to understand our surroundings, deeply affects our most basic attitudes towards all aspects of life. Science has a cultural value beyond the technology that it provides."

Sarkar, S. 2005. Biodiversity and environmental philosophy, an introduction. Cambridge University Press.