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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mysticete" data-source="post: 3289282" data-attributes="member: 67784">You are reading things into Bailey's post that just are not there. You also pulled a quote from a paragraph in such a way that it removes the original context from the line, which is hardly polite to put it mildlyThe full quote is:  "Further, if you have moral issues about collecting specimens for scientific research, then there is also no sense debating. We can agree to disagree here, but please be honest about your motives. Don't try to say the research isn't worthwhile or that scientists are doing some great harm to populations or species or that pictures are as good as specimens, just plainly tell me you have morals problems with it. I won't agree with you, but I will respect your opinion."He is not implying that scientists don't need any sort of ethics and can shoot everything that moves. He's referring to the the pointlessness of debating people who object to any collecting on the principle that killing is wrong. and it IS pointless to debate those people, because both parties are approaching the topic from completely alien viewpoints from one another.</blockquote>