WebWatch 005: E-HUNTING?!

In late January, entrepreneur John Lockwood let a friend become the first “hunter” to kill a confined animal via computer.

Launched last year, Live-Shot.com is the brainchild of Lockwood, a San Antonio body-shop estimator who claims he just wants to provide people with disabilities a chance to hunt. His altruistic talk conveniently sidesteps the ethical and moral issues of Internet hunting: Lockwood’s real-life video game has real-life consequences for animals—and perhaps for people, if the remote-control rifle software lands in the wrong hands. But Live-Shot.com also lacks any sense of fair chase, and it does not impose any hardship on the hunter who can fire shot after shot with all the burden of booking airline tickets. This is disembodied killing in which the hunter experiences no consequences: He sees no blood, hears no cries, feels nothing but the joy of the kill, like a kid with a violent video game.

I was having dinner with some friends when this topic was talked about. I was shocked and outraged when the news finally sank in. How can anyone even think of such?! This is a cowardly act, done to helpless and unsuspecting animals.

It is bad enough to hunt them just for the fun of it, but to NOT even give them a chance to use their senses to save themselves is EVIL.—Lockwood should be locked away in an asylum. He created an idea of an internet assassin without thinking of the consequences. If this is possible to be done to animals, what are the chances that it WON’T be done to humans?

News like these increases my angst on what type of world is there to leave for my (our) children. Let’s STOP this! Click on the link below because your vote counts!

Source: HSUS

WebWatch 004: Climate Talks

Real progress was made at the climate talks in Montreal, Canada, as governments finalized the ground rules for the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol and set the stage for discussions to further cut carbon emissions after 2012.

This is wonderful news! The ‘world’ is finally understanding the need to reduce carbon pollutions in order to save the planet WE live in.

With the support and participation of mayors, young people, business leaders and elected representatives from around the world, the plan for the Kyoto Protocol seem more promising. Hmm, I wonder what the US and Russia will think about this.?

The planet is the clear winner, despite tremendous pressure first from the US administration, then from Russia, to slow down progress in curbing global warming.

Now, Canada should just continue their extraordinary effort to ensure that the plan they agreed about, would become reality.

Let’s cross our fingers!

Source: Passport Panda