killing butterflies for fun???

[Sean Patrick Mullen]

Dear Joseph,

Please get a grip on reality.  How much do you know about the 
professional or amateur study of Lepidoptera?  My guess is nothing. 
If you have well-thought out valid objections to collecting, then I 
tip my hat to you and applaud the fact that you're making a personal 
decision not to collect.  If, however, you are, as I suspect, making 
a fairly uninformed and reactionary decision to champion new 
legislation against collecting, then think about this for a minute.

Do I tell you what you can wear?  What you should eat, how you should 
worship, who you can or can not associate with?  No.  Why, because 
your constitutional rights protect you from my opinions.  Now, if you 
can convince 51% of the voting public that your right, then you can 
force you ideas down my throat.  Until then, stick to what you know.

-Sean






>Hi butterfly lovers,
>
>I am new to this group and did a lot of searching to find you all.  I
>recently attended an audubon meeting in my county and the speaker 
>did his talk on butterflies.  I went expecting to see pictures of 
>live butterflies and to learn more about them.
>
>Instead, this guy (I won't mention his name - I don't want to get a 
>lynch mob goin ;)), brought in his collection of butterflies that he 
>killed and mounted FOR FUN!
>
>Since this is a butterfly group, I know you will be disturbed to 
>hear this, but I was wondering if there are any laws to protect 
>them?  Can just anyone go out an kill butterflies just for the fun 
>of it?  He also had a collection of moths that had pins through 
>them.  This didn't really bother me as much since most of them are 
>pests, but it would seem to me that we would have laws to protect 
>some of our most beautiful creatures.  What this guy does, and 
>others like him, is morally wrong and I intend to turn around this
>disturbing trend that murder is okay as long as the perpetrator is having fun.
>
>Just looking for direction on where to go, and sorry if the 
>discussion of dead butterflies has ruined your breakfast.
>
>Joseph

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