Sewblon said:
Necrophagist said:
The world is over-populated to the point of disaster. I don't think any group "deserves" to die (whose ideology is best, I ask you? And how can you decide? Isn't it all just blind belief system vs. blind belief system?) but lots of people need to die. Humans are replicating at an alarming rate, and it's going to be the end of civilization. It's already happening - because we can't stop ourselves from growing, there is a worldwide food and energy shortage, and the need to provide for all of us sniveling humans has caused environmental disaster. We recently passed that all-important 350 ppm mark for greenhouse gases, and we're racing toward that life-ending 500 ppm mark.
And yet, we don't care. I'll tell you this - nature has a way of setting things straight. Within the next generation, if we don't change our ways, nature will do it for us. We'll see environmental changes that will make life on earth for humans almost impossible. Food will disappear. Our air will become poison. Our water will become acid.
And yet, we let our politicians bicker back and forth in the name of commerce, in defense of our non-sustainable economy. If you ask me, we all kind of deserve to die. I have a 50-inch television. What an energy sucker. I'm listening to the Scorpions on 4 15 inch speakers with 350 watts behind them. And still I complain about energy waste.
I buy all of my food in plastic wrapping that will never biodegrade. I live in a city that is sprawling and yet has no useful public transportation, so I ride my motorcycle or drive my car everywhere I go.
Perhaps we (myself included) all deserve to die. Not because of our ideology or actions, but our inability to exist on earth without strangling it to death.
We humans are just as much a part of nature as rabbits and every other race of animals are. If the earth can sustain them their is no reason that it can not sustain us, granted we have no natural predators but we kill each other all the time and some of us are cannibals. I believe that it all evens out.
In theory, you're right. But only in theory. Humans have something that rabbits (and any other species on earth) don't have - reason, logic, scientific inquiry. See, if a rabbit should choose to do evil (which doesn't exist to any other species, by the way. Figure that one out), what are the consequences? Well, our evil rabbit could become gluttonous and consume all of the food in his immediate area, effectively killing off all animals in the area, including himself. Our rabbit could become wrathful and hunt for sport, effectively killing off all the animals in his immediate area.
What's the pattern? All other animals are secluded to their immediate area, and should be behave irresponsibly (which they don't), the effects are confined to that area and resolved within a few generations.
But humans, sir. Humans are a different story. We inhabit every corner of the world. We pillage, rape, and drain the earth at an astounding rate. Unlike our rabbit friend, when we choose to do evil, we do it in a big way. We drop bombs that destroy entire cities and make life impossible for countless generations. We drain the soil of nutrients then go merrily on our way, leaving behind dirt that will not yield food for ages. We clear entire forests at a time, killing off its inhabitants and destroying permanently the ecosystem which existed there.
We are not in tune with nature, we exist in combat with it. And the bad part is, we are winning. We are turning our oceans to acid and our skies to smoke. We are killing off entire species in a matter of hours. We are overfarming our land, overstretching our habitat, misunderstanding our place in the world. Humans are animals, you are right about that, but we are a vicious, unnatural animal. We are more a virus than a mammal. And the only cure for use, the virus which infects the world, is what we're already doing - the host is becoming inhospitable to our infection. Eventually, the damage we are doing to our host will lead to our demise, and perhaps then the world can live in harmony.
Love,
Jeremy the Anti-Humanist