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  1. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Maybe it would be clearer with less sarcasm: the bill is stupid. And it doesn't matter what you think about the bird naming - it's still stupid. Even if you "foresee" this happening, there is no moral obligation to "adjust your actions to accommodate idiocy". If anything, I see a strong impetus...
  2. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    You are basically saying that they should have acknowledged that about half of voting americans are insane and worked around it.
  3. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Hahaha, at least you see that birding is a serious business in Utah, when it gets the attention of politicians :)
  4. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    What is "facts" is highly subjective outside, in particular when it comes to social questions. "Logical" conclusions depend on what your premises are, so even when applying equally sound logic, people can arrive at different conclusions. I was specifically reacting to your statement that a...
  5. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I think this is one of the key problems with the discussion - some participants clearly hold this as some kind of universal truth, but some don't I find this is a very common source of misunderstanding, when people have an opinion that they think is obvious and valid, while it's still just...
  6. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    He might be an expert on birds and ornithology, I have nothing against that. But this is not an ornithological issue, it's an issue of society and ethics, no amount of knowledge on zoology is going to help him if he is this clueless.
  7. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I just find stunning that someone takes the response of this Howell guy seriously, or even praises it, when it's just a terrible pile of self-centered hubris. He: entirely refuses, even for one second, to see any point that his opposition has. Just dismisses it as absurd and that's it. "cannot...
  8. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    More walls of text that are composed of the same major ingredients: I don't want it! I don't understand why is it even a problem, because it's not a problem to me! and the most absurd of all the argument "when people are discussing this, they can't do anything else!" - well maybe this is true...
  9. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I call any Larus species "seagulls" in English and I envy you for having such a practical shorthand that most people easily understand. On the other hand, Czech has a short word for Phylloscopus warblers, so we are even.
  10. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I didn't really mean you. For what it's worth, I considered the "north american" books always quite funny. I was catching up on several pages now and several people suggested boycotting something if it goes along with the eponyms removal as if that had any chance of having an effect. I don't...
  11. opisska

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I would really like to see these boycotts mentioned here - of eBird, of guide books and what not - come to happen, only for the people to see that they are literally just what they accuse their opposition of being - a vocal minority - and the boycotts having no effect because most people either...
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