On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:59:29 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



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On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:57:06 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
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That puts the plague pretty high up your list of 'superior species'.

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

It is, I'm afraid. From Winky:

"Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia
pestis."

Bacteria is not equal to plant. Neither is yeast, mould, fungus, etc.

It's still a species, though, which is what we're discussing.

Not a significant one.

Corse it is given how many it killed.

Most people do not use "species" to include once cell organisms. Nobody cares if we make a fungus extinct, but we do when a tiger goes extinct.

That would be like you asking me to collect all the leaves from your
driveway, and I miss a few tiny little ones, while collecting all the huge
ones cut from your hedge.

Size has nothing to do with it.

Small leaves are insignificant when tidying up a driveway.