culling the species

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 10:23 PM Monday 4/28/2008, jon louis mann wrote:
>   
>> i care more about the extinction of plant and animal species than
>> humanity.
>> jon
>>
>>
>> hmmmm... i really don't think taking my own life will help matters...
>> jon
>>     
>
>
> But in either case the result for you is the same.
>
>
> I'm simply trying to get across in this discussion how offensive I 
> find it when anyone suggests that the death of every human on Earth 
> or a substantial fraction of them is A Good Thing, especially when 
> the people making the suggestion are clearly talking about Someone 
> Else doing the dying, and one way to get across how offensive it is 
> is to ask the people who are convinced that it would be such A Good 
> Thing why they don't lead by example instead of (implicitly or 
> explicitly) expecting Someone Else who does not necessarily agree 
> that it would be A Good Thing if most or all humans died off to do 
> the dying . . .
>   
Ah, I see your point. Mass executions are indeed hideous. I was thinking 
about population control from the breeding side. And I have indeed 
attempted to lead by example. I was sterilized at age 20, and have no 
children. Mind you, I do think that either we rein in population size, 
or a lot of people die on other hideous ways. Is it a whole lot better 
to avoid mass executions so that we can have mass starvation, or mass 
plagues, or mass wars?

Regards,

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Kevin B. O'Brien         TANSTAAFL
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