"Halfordian Golfer" wrote in message
ups.com...
From:

http://www.9news.com/news/local/arti...?storyid=76773

DENVER (AP) - A study led by University of Colorado researchers says
an effort to restore the endangered greenback cutthroat trout has been
using the wrong fish for two decades.

That a mistake like this is even possible invites the question of whether
the distinction between the two varieties is large enough and important
enough to get excited about. With ever more powerful and discriminating
analytical tools and protocols becoming available at a bewildering pace, we
are fast approaching.....in fact, we have already arrived at.....a point
where arguing about the validity of these distinctions becomes impossibly
complex......and inevitable. If the genome of the greenback cutthroat is
worth saving, well then, why not the genome of the trout (of whatever
species) of a particular watershed which, I can assure you, is different
from that in the next one over? At what point does the difference become
critical? Reductio ad absurdum.......the genetic makeup of each and every
fish is unique and thus must be conserved. The trouble is that with today's
technology there is nothing fundamentally absurd about the proposition of
characterising the genome of each individual fish.

That's the eternal prolem with reification.

(snip)

.sigh

Get over yourself. Hard as it must be for everyone to believe, this really
isn't about you.

Wolfgang