On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:57:06 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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?

Yes. In the bit you snipped.

What is an 'inferior species'?

One that has less intelligence.

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

Yes.

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

But it's IQ is about 0.0000001. And it's not a species, it's even less than a plant.

And German Jews in WWII rather far down.

Very far down, they believe in god, that makes them as bright as an amoeba.

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

Very much so.