Crow Busters

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Crow Busters
 

  3/1/02
I am watching the mating pair of crows in my front yard. They are beautiful. There is a really fat one and a smaller one that are a common guest of the yard. There is also a nesting robin in the Rhododendron tree outside the kitchen window. I can see her face.

Did you ever consider that when you kill a crow the babies back in the nest are going to die a slow painful death if the others are not able to care for them? As social animals there is no doubt that the remaining animals are going to feel pain over the lose of their companion. Of course, you would simply dismiss this. I will never understand how some people can put out of their minds the suffering they cause others. And I read your rational for your killing but its is a naked rationalization. I will never understand the evil in the hearts of man that can be rationalized as good. If you ask any villian how he does what he does he will always tell you that he is the cause of no suffering and that his is a noble cause. Such pride. The Christians who enslaved Africans said God had told them it was a noble cause. Later they rationalized their sin by saying Africans were not human. Killing crows is not the same thing of course but the mechanics of the human mind used to rationalize bad behaviour (wrong thinking) is the same. As they say the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince people he didn't exist. Those who do not beleive they are capable of doing great wrong in seemingly simple acts are the most capable. But all acts of terror begin with small acts by men who consider themselves good. The virtuous man is the one who is very careful of all his actions and does no harm to others. I believe only a few people are virtuous. Most men are common and lazy thinkers content in rationalizing their actions to the point where they no longer see the world around them. All they see are the world they have created in their minds.
After snapping out of the psuedo-coma this letter induced, we realized that you took the long way in getting around to stating the Animal Rights holy mantra, “Animals are the same as Humans”. You know, the “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” mentality that permeates the PETA run vegetarian cafeterias around the world.  Well, you are right; man has done some horrible things to his fellow man for one noble cause or another. Nobody is proud of that. But that doesn't have anything to do with sport hunting! So let’s try this once again. Animals are not people! They don’t have the same rights as people and never will! In fact, unless you had Chicken Pox and missed a few Sunday School lessons, you should know that they don’t have human souls either! Sorry, but that is what makes us capable of that nobility you talked about. Anyway, you get the idea, or maybe you don’t. In either case, I suppose we will continue to be the crow shootin’ villains you labeled us as. By the way, I’m sure the African-American hunters reading this will love having slavery compared to crow hunting. What was that you said about being careful to do no harm to others?

P.S. Sorry to break this to you Michael, but those nesting crows will likely eat those baby robins soon. It’s getting harder and harder to find a virtuous crow these days.