So those students at Columbine High School had the right idea after all? I wonder whose method is less painful...
Or would vials of this virus be taken only to those "other" parts of the world, that have those poor, non-progressive, non-developing, large deadweight populations?
Or would that be antidemocratic.
What a quandary.
Obviously we need a scientist to tell us the most economic and fair way to spray biologic bullets around.
I suppose it's a dumb question to ask, "Save the planet for whom?"
A:
That you have to ask demonstrates an insipient speciesism, of precisely the kind which we must work to overcome.
The god's eye view of relativism culminates in self-hatred.
As opposed to what I suppose we could call the blind egoism of all living things, including viruses, germs, bacteria, slime molds and all that icky stuff we imperious humans take for granted.
Is my tinnitus truly a malfunction of my hearing, or is it the howling of a billion trillion motherless, fatherless, childless germ thingees, pathetic genocidal victims of Imperial Human Race, with its endless array of death chemicals [like triclosan]?
Life itself has become several hundred hairy, non-bathing blue-stater ideologues vs. the voracious, egoistic, red-stater remainder of life species, including unappreciative, non-parsing, non-relativist germs and bacteria themselves.
To say nothing of Toby Keith fans.
Hi, Ralph!!
We tend to forget that there is a vast materialist movement out there among people whose minds are incapable of any other kind of reasoning than the most barren positivism. More dangerous than the wild-eyed fanaticism of the ayatollahs is the frozen mind of those who gave us the nuclear bomb and other delights of modern culture.
Oh, God ...
So, I'm an insipid speciesist, am I? Well, let me tell you a thing or two. I ... what?
Oh.
Never mind.
YEW CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
And Dr Pianka can't handle losing his tenure.
"several hundred hairy, non-bathing blue-stater ideologues"
And one underemployed Irish cleric of exceptional style and verve, who will soon be telling us how to Buddhists would handle it all.
Hi Kathy, whazzup?
I'm down wid it. You?
Blessed Paschaltide!
Wow. I'm nearly speechless. SoV2 & I actually agree on something.
Umm...just, umm...
The guy on the right must be a volunteer.
Father:
Please define barren positivism. It sounds as if it is identical to the "Spirit" of Vatican II": Listen to the cheery positive signs of the times, which are a-changin'.
As recently as this week the socialist party in power in Spain tried to pass a legislative proposal codenamed "Great Ape" (Gran Simio) that had the objective of extending human rights to the larger apes.
Suddenly (and sadly) it all makes perfect sense.
Dang! I was going to say that. As St. Jerome said, "Cursed be he who said what I was going to say before I said it." And I had a whole bunch of witticisms about trousered apes and such.
"What is man that Thou art mindful of him?" Evidently, anything you can get by a judge or a legislature. Cf. Heinrich Rommen's book, *The Natural Law* -- not that *The State in Catholic Thought* also isn't worth reading, assuming you can find a copy.
Hey!, by all means go ahead. I have already read and heard all sorts of witticisms in Spanish, but none in English.
Who will be the first person to sacrifice his miserable life for the good of the planet? My money's on Mrs Pianka.
Just to kick things off:
"It gives a whole new meaning to 'trousered ape'." (No longer a Philistine, but an endorsement.)
"So ... I guess you won't mind leading apes on earth as well as in hell?" (A rather nasty insult based on the folk belief that a spinster who rejected a good marriage was condemned to be followed throughout eternity by an ape on a leash.)
From G&S (from an earlier "Bab Ballad"), "A lady fair of lineage high/Was loved by an ape in the days gone by/The maid was radiant as the sun/The ape was a most unsightly one/But it would not do/The scheme fell through/For man however well behaved/At best is only a monkey shaved.
(I left out a lot).
Okay, so I'm a little esoteric, but gee whiz.
Texas Aggies have been putting up with this nonsense from that secular school in Austin for more than a hundred years. Is it any wonder we can't stand the place?
I suppose Mr. Pianka excepts himself from the 90% who should be offed via Ebola? If indeed he's recusing himself from the genocide, does that mean that he thinks *he,* at least, is better--and worthier to live--than bacteria? 
Diane
As usual, the Pope is on to this sort of thing, which expresses itself in Europe's demographic suicide.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Fro...e/
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