What great ideas.  Anyone know if bottle nosed dolphin can survive on a diet
of oscars and grass carp?  They'd look really cool cavorting in the lake
behind my house.

Lee

Only if it is a lawyer.

BTW, mine came through shining like a new dime.

He probably takes their dog.

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You are correct, we don't have to, but some of us do. Some people even
kill animals and eat their flesh.

Please reread your original reply. It reads as though you were mocking
the person who asked the initial question. I thought it was goofy that
someone would mock another person for asking a simple question who
wanted a genuine answer, but instead got a reply about turtles and
seals that has nothing to do with the thread.

Some people don't believe in curses, and lava rock has nothing to do
with the original question. We might as well start talking about alien
abduction and cow mutilations. It's proper to stick to the subject of
the thread. If we're going off topic it is proper to start a new
thread.

It's good to engage in intellectual debate, and I appreciate your
intent with this question. However, many scuba divers don't subscribe
to your point, but, in the interrest of debate, let us look at what
happens if the original poster does not take a sea star from the ocean.
It is possible for sea stars to over populate an area resulting in
starvation of a large number of sea stars. If this were to happen, many
sea stars could live a slow anguishing death. However, if the poster
were to safely and humanely remove a sea star, take it home, feed it,
nourish it, give it other sea stars to frolic with, that sea star could
live a long healthy life.

Another point: If the poster did not remove a sea star from the ocean
but instead went to a pet store to purchase a sea star, it is unknown
how the pet store sea star was harvested. Did some untrained
third-world country scuba diver risk potential death to themselves (as
many third-world lobster divers do) to overharvest a reef of sea stars,
possibly killing many sea stars in the process due to uncaring
harvesting methods and pursuit of the almighty buck (possibly less...).
So, does the poster go to a pet store to get a sea star, which likely
performs more harm to the environment, or simply plucks one from the
ocean that they know is safe, healthy, allows other sea stars in the
area more food, and has the benefit of knowing they did a good thing by
removing "bad harvesting" from picture?

You may or may not agree with me, and I may or may not agree with you,
but that's not important. What is important is netiquette. Either
answer a qestion and move on or don't answer and don't mock someone who
doesn't have the same beliefs as you. Stick to the topic. If you want
to go off on someone please start a separate topic (you can start a
topic to go off on people who harvest sea stars if you like - that
gives others to see the subject line and engage or move on...).

Have a nice day.

I got marbles behind my medicine cabinets - they're real neat at parties!