On 16/12/2018 16:12, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
Apart from natural disasters - as we were discussing inferior species
going away, not being destroyed suddenly by something they have no power
to be immune to.

Were we?

What is an 'inferior species'?

One that dies at the hands of a 'superior species'?

That puts the plague pretty high up your list of 'superior species'.

And German Jews in WWII rather far down.

Is that really a helpful model of the way natural humanity interacts
with the *rest* of the natural world?


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Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the
gospel of envy.

Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill