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From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch")
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Subject: Response to Greg Earle's mindless anti-human flame
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 14:07:12 EST
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    From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!oberon!smeagol!earle@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (Greg Earle)

    In article <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].835728.860302.KFL>, Keith Lynch writes:
    >   The term 'population explosion' is a pernicious term.  It makes
    > population sound like a bad thing. 
    Do you live in a cave?  It IS a bad thing - most (if not all) of the
    world's ecosystem problems can be directly traced to humankind multiplying
    like flies and devouring all available space!!!!

  I don't think a 2% growth rate is 'multiplying like flies', and I
don't think 10 acres per person is 'devouring all available space'.
This message seems quite hysterical.  Do you hate mankind?  Do you
hate yourself?

    Try coming to East L.A. sometime.  I'll let you see the pregnant women
    pushing toddlers in strollers, while they hold pre-schoolers by the arms,
    with the older kids walking behind.  Then tell me that 'population isn't a
    bad thing'.

  Why don't YOU tell her that population IS a bad thing.  Just go up
to her, and in your usual rabid manner say "Excuse me m'am but I think
the world would be a much better place if you and all your children
were dead."
  If you find the sight of women and children so hateful, why don't
you move out of the big city?

    You are at MIT, right?  You get WGBH?

  I have an account on an MIT computer.  I live in Virginia, near
Washington D.C.

    I shouldn't need to mention the clubbing of baby seals to make coats for
    Fucking Rich Moron women.

  Please don't.  What about the slaughter in slaughterhouses?  Do you
eat meat?  Chicken?  Fish?  What about vegetables, why should plants
suffer?  What about animals that eat animals, are they as evil as
people?

    My idea of the main point in going into space is that an unintended
    offshoot will be to get all the *f____g people* off of the earth, so
    maybe the Planet and the animals (who beat us here by a LONG time) will
    have a slim chance of repairing all the damage that humans have caused to
    the ecosystem.

  Why do you hate mankind so much?
  Another reason for going into space is to bring plants and animals
with us, so that there can be so many more of them over a much wider
area for a much longer time.  In the long run, mankind is the one hope
of all life on Earth.
								...Keith