These people reason as morons. Do they not know that at the time there were no guns? Birds were not killed so much to be unsustainable?

That in this day and age when all wildlife is diminishing there is no place any more for killing?

Honestly, I give up on this country sometimes. They are talking of things thousands of years ago and comparing them to today. The worrying thing is that they will find a lot who will quote them and support them.

What I’d love to see is Mr.Azzopardi Ferriggi secured face down to a tavern table in Sodom at least 2 hours before it is destroyed.

Those who have studied hard science such as theoretical psychology know that human beings are predisposed to believe what they want to believe.

Education translates into ‘ghall-ezami’ for most people and a whole ‘movement’ was founded on wearing illiteracy as a badge of honour. Even Maltese TV productions which are the staple for many thrive on the trashy and lack substance.

No surprises there, just plenty of opportunity to despair around the water cooler.

Social needs change according to time and context.

To ignore the reality is to say that the net need is identical.

By the same reasoning does the couple have nits?

Or am I of the impression that the PL people are scaremongering the hunters that if this referendum passes, the hunting hobby is at risk altogether?

We now live in the Post-New Testament times brought about by the Moviment Liberali u Popolari (MLP), where god is benevolent u li jahdem ma kull hadd, so get on with it.

The problem I see with this referendum is that this nation is coming out, officially, as the most ignorant and backward in the European Union. Without the referendum, we could somehow claim that most people opposed spring hunting, and indeed newspaper polls did confirm this in the past.

When properly informed electorates in modern democracies are consulted, through this most direct form of participation, they can generally be counted on to make the right choice. This, perhaps understandably, is what people wished and hoped for when signing the petition.

As things now stand, with the leaders of the major parliamentary groups declaring themselves in favour of the massacre of migrating breeding stock during spring, and their media machines actively spinning the various deceptions perpetrated by the hunters’ lobby, the outcome of the consultation seems ever more certain.

The problem with a “Yes” vote is not just the tragedy of a terribly wrong decision, but the fact that from then on we would all be identified with it. Whatever the margin, people will simply say that “Malta voted for spring hunting”. Can you imagine the embarrassment when facing our fellow Europeans?

As the saying goes: “It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.

Kemm jiflah ikun stupidu il-bniedem!