Not only are the Green parties not mainstream, they are friends with groups that are openly practicing terrorists. How else to describe the antics of the Rainbow Warrior, or the destruction of labs? (Footnote: the suffering of animals in medical experiments should be taken seriously. So must the suffering of those with diseases that researchers are trying to cure.) People who attack abortion clinics are roundly condemned, but how is it better to attack medical labs for the sake of freeing animals, if human lives are endangered in the process?
There is something faintly suspect about those who are so deeply troubled by making coats out of rodents in a world where children's arms are hacked off if they don't support African dictators. It is also peculiar that Berkeleyites and their ilk rattle their mugs in protest about fair coffee prices, while taking holidays in Cuba and soaking up the ambience of a junta that relies on torture and fear. The existence of one evil doesn't mean that lesser evils should be ignored; nevertheless, people's finances and energies are finite, and those causes to which we devote these resources should be prioritized.
Posted by Clio at January 6, 2003 06:39 PM