Interspecies Friendships Thriving in Saanich - re. deer kill

Post by C. McClarnon:

Why do politicians feel pressured to choose violence as a primary choice in dealing with wildlife issues? Violent methods (such as culls) traumatise the many decent people who live in our communities, including children. AND, many of the decent people who positively enrich our communities, commune deeply with nature and develop close spiritual INDIVIDUAL bonds and friendships with wildlife who visit their properties or pass by in their communities. (Indeed, many of these beautiful creatures are given names and are recognized as individuals).

These social interspecies bonds are an important part of the mental health and well-being, and indeed core life values, of many people in our communities. What happens to a person when his or her friends are murdered? Indeed, for some people (including many elderly people), their relationships with their animal friends give meaning to their lives in a way that this commercial, economic, greed-based insanity cannot.

Please think about these social traumatisations carefully when dealing with the question of culling! There can be no denying that interspecies individual friendships are thriving in Saanich, and no person (politician or otherwise) has any self-proclaimed rights to murder another person's friends (human or other), or the right to deny that person to commune with nature. This kind of gruesomeness renders a deep ugliness to a community.

-- Christine McClarnon