10-04-2011, 08:16 AM
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freestate- We all get how you feel: "I think bringing Axis Deer is a very bad idea " but you have not provided any argument of worth. All you do is blindly stand behind your ideas and complain about name calling over the net -> whoop di doo. I take it quite offensively for someone who is not from Hawaii or the Big Island to say "I believe in repairing or minimizing the damage to the Big Island" to someone who grew up here such as myself, after my family has lived here for generations. I would never go to yours or anybody elses hometown and say I believe in repairing the damage that was done here. Who are you to move here and say what is right, or best for the Big Island?! My family as well as the family's of many who have lived here for generations have contributed to make Hawaii what it is today, and you are calling that "damaged". Now that's insulting, I'd take axis deer over anti-Hawaii people like yourself any day.
Here we have the fundamentalist position. Those that agree with you are "good ones", right?
The idea that bringing eating/breeding machines with NO predators into a damaged ecosystem is not good is seventh-grade-biology. That is where you should have learned that principle, not my job to teach it to you.
I don't understand how being here for generations affects the ecological concept the Axis Deer issue brings to light.
People are trying to change the argument to sheep, or make it a Native Hawaiian issue. Straw man arguments.
And to say that Hawaii's ecosystem isn't damaged from invasive species already is not living in reality. Ask a biologist working on the Big Island how healthy the island's ecosystem is. Just because parts look pretty doesn't make it a healthy ecosystem overall.
Opposing Axis Deer on the Big Island doesn't make you anti-hunting or a person that wants to starve the poor.
But I get your point. I don't agree with you therefor I'm anti-Hawaiian.
Got it.