If you watched most of our meeting's video you probably saw a couple of people say they couldn't believe the "opposition" would put deer lives ahead of human lives. I say ultimately we're fighting the notion that killing is the best way to solve a problem, and we want to prevent our kids, if we can, from acclimating to violence as a solution. It's not such a long way from culling deer to invading countries. Both actions reduce complex issues to black and white, both are acceptable only when you devalue life. None of these actions solve anything, in fact the need to escalate the action is the inescapable, totally predictable outcome. Violence perpetuates more violence by giving comfort to the pretense that a somehow unsolvable core problem can be made to go away if we only use more firepower.
Heroic action doesn't always look heroic on TV. It takes more courage, more resolve, more patience and more skill than this to really solve these problems. Public servants? Why do they really want those jobs, anyway?
Rob Slater
villagedeer.com