[Taxacom] OK Taxacomers, you have had your chance, now it's the lawyers turn.

[John Grehan]

'When *I* use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it
means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you *can* make words mean so many
different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca>
wrote:

> On 11/28/2017 12:32 AM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>
>>  nobody is trying to force taxonomists to adopt any particular
>> "definition" of "species", but rather that conservation (and possibly
>> other) "decision makers" should all follow a standard definition.
>> Personally, I don't care what definition of species such "decision makers"
>> use, so I don't see this as a big deal, and I don't see that it will have
>> any impact on taxonomy, just on conservation, etc.
>>
>
> * this is a "right-wing" "personal liberty" website/group (I read through
> a lot of the site), and the kinky thing about this post is that they say
> that they consider that '“species” or “subspecies”... are terms of
> convenience, deriving their value from larger conservation policy.'
>
> This is curiously opposite from the recent kerfuffle about the article in
> Nature, because it supposes that taxonomy is a tool of conservation
> interests, rather than that taxonomy is an impediment to conservation.
>
> fred.
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