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From: tims@shark.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re:Re:Nuclear Exchange
Message-ID: <141@shark.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 16:24:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 16:24:59 1983
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    > One more life-bearing planet in a universe which probably contains many
    > life-bearing planets wouldn't matter much with no one around to enjoy it.
				Prentiss Riddle

  By "no one" I can only assume you mean no humans or life of some equivalent
  or greater intelligence, if not, then ignore this article.  I find it hard
  to believe that anyone would take the attitude that a planet abundant in
  life does not matter with no one around to enjoy it.  Do you imply that
  plants and animals only matter to provide economic and recreational
  resources for people?  Remember that people are only one species out of
  some thousands on this planet.  People have no more importance or
  significance than any of the others.  I am reminded of a priest (minister,
  or whatever) that said, during a friend's catholic wedding, that the
  earth was created by God for man's disposal.  What a crock!  It's
  attitudes like that which will someday insure that every forest is
  stripped, every mountain stripmined, every river diverted, and every
  other inch of land cover with roads, highways, buildings, farms or
  some other man-made monstrosity.  You're right, of course, it won't
  matter TO US if we're all dead.  But while we're alive, shouldn't
  we respect the right of other forms of life to live as well, even if
  someday we won't be around to enjoy it?