[QUOTE=alcor;39677]When you build motorways animals die crossing the road.
When an aircraft takes off/lands we often kill birds.
We drive our speedboats and the propeller rips apart sealife.
We shoot animals and call it sport.
We consider ourselves the most advanced species on the planet, and yet, we leave death and destruction in our path.
We drill for oil, and cause untold damage to the marine life.
And yet, our thirst for oil is not quenched. We all have a part to play in the destruction of the world.
[B]In this case, birds suffer because we want oil to fuel our cars. All of us are culpable.[/B] Many, never asked what the consequences of our actions are. Blame who you like. Oil, will still be needed tommorow!![/QUOTE]
No.
No. No. No. No. No.
A thousand times “no” if you like. We are not “all culpable”, and birds are not killed because “we” “want oil to fuel our cars.”
In this case, birds are killed because reckless, incompetent, greed-heads from BP (and TO, and, and, and), caused an entirely preventable Major-League Fuck-Up. You make this sound somehow acceptable, “a cost of doing business”. Well, it is NOT that. It is criminally negligent greed and stupidity. Stupid (and greedy) by design, and therefore stupid in application.
No, we won’t “blame who [we] like.”, maybe that’s how they do it in your land, but here we (at least try to) blame [I]the guilty[/I].