Is it unethical for the US Navy to use dolphins to retrieve mines and other dangerous objects?

Yes

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by Rosemarie Quintal

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Robotics is specifically developed for detonating ordnance safely! Just recently in the state of Hawaii during the same week military sonar tests are in Federal Court and Judge Ezra ruled that whales should and need to be protected from U.S. Navy military war games or Pacific Rim war games, a rare striped dolphin no one knows much about washed up dead on Hawaii shores! I personally believe that the dolphin may have been inured also but the U.S. Navy's sonar practices. Robotics clears ordnance from the Island of Kaahoolawe-who is even thinking of dolphins for land mine destruction?

Both dolphins and whales communicate with human beings now only through the studies of John Lily and other Doctor Scientists interested in interpreting their sound languages, but through the love and affection we give, through the joy and relaxation experiences we have watching them move in the ocean. whales and dolphins will think about you if you habitually travel and watch them along lookout places of Hawaii wondering where you are. You become part of their pod. The expense of robotics can be reduced by establishing a Department Of Peace and limited a war response. The United Nations requires self determination such as war be accomplished through peace yet there is still no Secretary of The Peace position. Maybe we need the world of dolphins and whales to urge us toward this.

One year a lot of sound noises and stalking happened where I was living, I dreamt of whales at night. I realized slowly during my sleep as I began to talk to someone that I could not hold my breath for so long, that I experienced out of my body swimming with whales. I noticed the sounds stopped. A Dietrich Varez portrait titled "E Laiki E" of a woman riding a whale and a documentary of a woman popping barnacles off a whale I wish I could also help brought that tender, silent unexpected, protective, friendship into my life.

Dolphins undiscovered or newly forming will not even have a chance to be discovered if we give permission to using them to destroy land mines. Their protections and joy can be felt in the reciprocal protection we give back to them as endangered bottle nose dolphins and other endangered dolphin population recover from the travesty of over fishing encouraged by an attitude that we are parasites as human being predators and not symbiotic or mutulaism biological creatures. Using dolphins to destroy land mines is parasitic-we are better and more as human beings than that choice!

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