At 10:25 AM Friday 7/10/2009, Dave Land wrote:
On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:07 PM Thursday 7/9/2009, hkhenson wrote:
snip (considerable)
On the other hand you have
lots of people not only saying it is not possible, but directly
arguing that a human die-back is more desirable than cheap energy.
And as I always ask folks who express similar ideas, how many of
them volunteered to start it by being the first to go right now?
I've never thought of this as a particularly effective response.
Besides being too much of a personal attack, it is too easily
deflected: Those who would make an argument like that (that a culling
of the human species is an effective solution to one problem or
another) clearly think of some human lives as having less value than
others. They would almost certainly put themselves in the "high value"
group.
It is _supposed_ to be a direct and personal reminder to those who
feel that way that except in their own self-centered opinion they are
not any more "high value" than the little brown people on the other
side of the world or those who live on the "wrong" side of the
railroad tracks in their own home towns.
. . . ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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