Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 20 Feb 2025 00:40:03 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
the responsibility of others.

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I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and greasy,
but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are told.  And I will
never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.
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Howard Waldrop's _The Ugly Chickens_ is one of the best SF stories ever
written but is not historically accurate regarding the flavour of dodo.
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IOW, this is /not/ "particular about Americans". At least, not when
historical events are listed.

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God may have given us dominion over the earth and the seas but that does
not seem to me to be a license to just wreck it all.

My first introduction to environmentalism was when I was in my youth
and the church we attended extended the concept of "stewardship" to
include "caring for God's creation".

Normally, "stewardship" meant "pledging how much you would contribute
each week", so this was a definite improvement.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"