Re: Alternate History Question:

In article <36-dnfUM_bhltkPUnZ2dnUVZ_i1i4p2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mimus <tinmimus99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:21:09 +0000, Christopher Henrich wrote:

In article <4oudnSXBRcxCGkDUnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mimus <tinmimus99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do want the wolves back in North America and the US, but under different
conditions in different zones, contoured outward from biome preserves--
in which there would be no hunting of wolves unless the population needed
to be trimmed, in which case the culling would be configured to leave the
healthiest possible packs etc.; the wolves would be tagged and tracked as
closely as possible for scientific and monitoring purposes; and known
unprovoked attackers of humans hunted down and killed-- through an
intermediate zone or zones to the residential and industrial cores with
varying combinations of hunting seasons; trapping and return; hunting and
killing of known unprovoked attackers of humans; etc. . . . .

Let's think like SF writers and try to extrapolate... somebody must
decide whether a particular attack really was unprovoked. Is this an
administrative decision, or a judicial one? Should the wolf be tried by
a jury of its peers?

The jury-pool from the woods would necessarily be relatively deer-heavy . . .
.

Well, I had not even got so far as considering the issue of allowing
deer to be empaneled in the Predators' and Carnivores' District Court.
Dogs, maybe. But would a wolf accept dogs as "peers?"

Remember, all the canids assume that "peer" means "one who pees." This
is in point, because (if I am correctly informed) the difference between
wolf urine and dog urine is extremely impressive. To dogs and wolves.
The wolves think the dogs are tree-hugging wusses.

On the other, um, hand, wolves accept dogs as lawyers, and a dog is far
more likely to become a layer than is a wolf.. This discrepancy
obviously arises from the fact that domestic dogs have more access to
books, TV shows, etc. in their formative years.

--
Christopher J. Henrich
chenrich@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.mathinteract.com
"A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver." -- Boon
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