No, Tbug, they really don't need reworking, as the "serious business" threads that get chucked in here either die after a few days, or they turn into a debate. These threads deserve perhaps a footnote, which I will work in at some point if I get a chance, but really they're not that much different from other threads that are posted in here. Serious discussion doesn't last long when everybody completely agrees with each other, and debates are the natural result of serious discussion when people don't completely agree.
Also... sorry, but the fact that there's a Christian convert in the government means absolutely nothing. Doubtless there have been other equally moral people in the government before (or indeed, more moral people if they were speaking their minds without having converted to Christianity and gaining a sudden fear of hellfire if they didn't do so) who have not succeeded in changing the Communist Party's views on various bigger issues of society, much less the fur trade. If you can't persuade them to respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what makes you think they're more likely to listen to some undefined list of "animal rights"? (These vary by country and don't have any sort of universal theme behind them in many cases, hence the "undefined".)
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