Your Marxist Moron of the Day, and Daley Douchebag comes to us via Warner Todd Huston
In the warped moral thinking of the extreme left, all creatures are better off never having existed for their “suffering.” This is, for instance, how in-human leftists excuse abortion. If a child was never born, they contend, he will never suffer. Well, at least one professor has taken this extreme precept to its ultimate end. In a recent rambling New York Times piece Rutgers philosophy professor Jeff McMahan has proposed that we kill off every meat eating animal (including humans presumably) on earth to stop the “suffering” of their prey.
He proposes that we can do this either by just killing them all, or by some sort of genetic manipulation to breed out their carnivorous propensities. Why should we do this? Because it is the nice, Christian thing to do, of course. Why, think of it, we’d be ending “suffering” on earth he says.
Suppose that we could arrange the gradual extinction of carnivorous species, replacing them with new herbivorous ones. Or suppose that we could intervene genetically, so that currently carnivorous species would gradually evolve into herbivorous ones, thereby fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy. If we could bring about the end of predation by one or the other of these means at little cost to ourselves, ought we to do it?
Perhaps one of the more benign scenarios is that action to reduce predation would create a Malthusian dystopia in the animal world, with higher birth rates among herbivores, overcrowding, and insufficient resources to sustain the larger populations. Instead of being killed quickly by predators, the members of species that once were prey would die slowly, painfully, and in greater numbers from starvation and disease.
Yet our relentless efforts to increase individual wealth and power are already causing massive, precipitate changes in the natural world.
Read the whole thing as WTH exposes this dimwit as just another Neo-Marxist educated well beyond his hat size. Personally I think we ought to lock this asshat in a cage with a hungry Grizzly Bear and let them “hash it out”
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Dave C
Gatordoug
That’s ridiculous. Herbivores eat plants, which remove DEADLY CARBON DIOXIDE from the air. More herbivores means less CO2-removing plants (and more deadly greenhouse-gas methane cow flatulence also) which would cause our Mother Earth to heat up to about a zillion degrees or so!! Clearly, we need to breed all the evil herbivorous tendencies out of those animals (and humans also) so that a world populated solely by carnivores would be made safe for our oppressed photosynthesizing plant-brothers and plant-sisters. All the carnivores could simply eat each other for sustenance (circle of life!), thus eliminating the need for any being to cause needless plant-suffering.