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Amanda,
It’s not a can of worms or any kind of attack, just some healthy debate… maybe mixed with some of my irreverent sarcasm and a little dose of strong political views about Gov’t. Waste… (since you mentioned this experiment was being done on grant money).
My initial reply to your first post was just a different opinion about whether these cross-bred genetically enhanced fish should be readily traded or at least if someone is going to take you up on your offer, they would have opposing viewpoints to weigh in their decision.
In your follow-up reply, you did state a couple of incorrect “facts” which I pointed out to you. It’s not an attack but rather a correction. When you correct one of your student’s papers… isn’t that all you are doing? Correcting it… or should it be construed as an attack on that student?
When you point out that you have a PhD, some people tend to think everything you say may be correct but unfortunately, I know that many PhD’s spew out all kinds of incorrect information to our children in high-priced public and private universities and lower educational facilities. I’m not saying you are that type of PhD but simply having a degree does not give you carte blanche status to voice your opinions unopposed. Your opinions are still subject to peer review and/or the review of other interested parties.
There’s no reason for you to leave the group if you do indeed wish to help or be helped by others. If you don’t like what I have to contribute, hit the delete key when you see a reply from me.
Now, getting back to the glo-fish, I’m all for free enterprise and market place economics but I wouldn’t lose any sleep if the glo-fish people went out of business today…. nor would I lose any sleep if any of the other breeders who are doing experiments on fish for the sole purpose of turning a bigger profit from decorative fish. Experiments and research done to promote the common good of man is fine but simply to create a new decorative fish??? I don’t get it! I only came to this conclusion as a fancy goldfish owner and seeing all the problems that fancy goldfish have due to their selective inbreeding. If some warped individual hadn’t decided to play Dr. Frankenstein a long time ago, goldfish would still be “normal” and live out longer healthier lives, but now we have countless fancy varieties with all kinds of internal defects to go with all of the external defects…. oops.. I meant “pretty” features… that live half the lifespan of their “normal” counterparts. (Uh oh… there I go again with my irreverent sarcasm! LOL)
Even responsible fish keepers could lose their fish to public waterways. Let me think of how that might happen… oh yeah.. hurricanes Andrew, Katrina, Camille, Mississippi River plains flooding, etc., etc., where the flood waters may just “release” the aquarium fish without the owners consent. While I can chalk those events up to “(Blank) Happens!”, I don’t want potentially mutant fish being accidentally released.
I think I pointed out earlier that I want to have the only day-glo colored bait (lure) in the lake or river so I have the better chance of catching that big bass or trout. I don’t need a bunch of glowing zebra danios messing with my attempts. LOL
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