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, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." -- Wernher von Braun _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
