Editor,
After 3 1/2 years of reading the Daily Lobo and Alibi opinion sections, it has occurred to me: a solution to everyone's ever-so-pressing and emotion-inducing problems.
We should reintroduce large, man-eating carnivores into our environment. Let's see how people react to having to defend themselves from a real and immediate threat to their well-being.
Will the ongoing argument over gun control survive people needing protection from being eaten? Will people cry over parking conditions knowing they could get pounced on between classes? Will the fight over unborn fetuses continue so heatedly now that pregnant women would be easier targets for the new carnivore threat?
Would we be worrying so much about whose religious views are right when we should be worrying about not getting eaten? What if we had to fight for our own survival every day? Would we still fight over political correctness and who's been oppressed the most? What multitude of hot-button issues would soon be forgotten if people had a real and immediate threat to their lives?
So, think about it next time you feel yourself getting angry at the guy who sings by the SUB or feel that your ethnic background is not adequately reflected by the faculty, or maybe when they bring back the giant abortion display.
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Yes, this may suck, but you're not getting eaten by saber-toothed tigers either.
Brian McNamara
UNM student
