RE: The Need to Breed
August 14, 2012 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2012 at 11:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We keep invoking this "kill every other human being on the planet" bit like there isn't anything else that we can do about this. Even so, if you were told that the child you had been hoping for was a non-starter, that you just couldn't have it because it would kill everyone on the fucking planet.....do you really think that this would stop you? Do you have any confidence that such a statement would stop others?
It isn't an issue of worse, sure, worse for me, but that doesn't mean worse for you. We could have a difference of opinion on that, at the end of the day that's what we'd be arguing. No, I'm criticizing this notion on the grounds that our metrics are flawed, our acceptence of this -at this time- is an indicator of laziness and capriciousness -not any attempt to save the world-, and that anyone who had to make this decision in earnest after all else had been considered and attempted would have a better picture of the situation than ourselves and (likely) more options available.
It isn't an issue of worse, sure, worse for me, but that doesn't mean worse for you. We could have a difference of opinion on that, at the end of the day that's what we'd be arguing. No, I'm criticizing this notion on the grounds that our metrics are flawed, our acceptence of this -at this time- is an indicator of laziness and capriciousness -not any attempt to save the world-, and that anyone who had to make this decision in earnest after all else had been considered and attempted would have a better picture of the situation than ourselves and (likely) more options available.
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