Daniel Bohle wrote:I prefer people who flipp stones and and can not return them over people who are violent.
Really, what/whom did you mean by "violent"? My only argument was just that "
... being a scientist doesn't make
one a decent person. But we know that already." Johannes Stark was just a
DRASTIC example to illustrate that
sad fact, nothing else. Unfortunately, my professional colleague, a physicist, by the way... having received the
Nobel Prize for his achievements in physics - and quite deservedly. On the other hand, he was quite willing to send
Albert Einstein and many others like him to death... Beats me. Or rather, more sadly and realistically, it doesn't...
Now back to our own immediate problematics - poaching and/or destroying the habitat by turning stones and not
replacing them consequently...
Well, not just destroying the HABITAT, but maybe even something (arguably) of more worth than that... I've seen
that some fieldherp enthusiasts are prone to dismantling ANYTHING made of stone, if it's just(?!) drystone walling,
no matter what it's worth to the humankind in some other respects... And sometimes/someplace it really is.
What I want to say most clearly: if you
dismantle something you don't understand and/or appreciate, just to catch
an another
gemonensis or
viridiflafus, maybe you have destroyed a cultural monument of some kind... So, please,
keep in mind that possibility as well.
I cant wait to see them in the field doing shi* like that...
