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 p.2 #18 · p.2 #18 · Looking for Answers - Humans - what are you doing? | |
arbitrage wrote:
Great portraits KD.
The human population is out of control....hence nature tries to intervene with a virus...unfortunately we are all selfish and try to stop it from running its course. At least when the asteroid hits we won't be able to stop it....
Another point of view...
This isn't nature intervening at all. Early signs and scientific studies point to the origin of the disease as the result of a bunch of careless individuals using poor food handling practices and carrying on unwise traditions of consuming things not meant for human consumption. There's no evidence that nature created a virus and tried to infect the human population to reduce our numbers and overall footprint.
I understand that I'm in the minority, certainly here, but I don't think overpopulation is a problem at all. As far as I can tell human ingenuity is our most precious resource without question. Imagine that in the effort to curb population an Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Edison, Galileo, Gibbon, Jobs, never get born. What if Lincoln, MLK, Mother Teresa, Obama, or Mandela were never born? Scientific collaboration that leads to unimaginable technological advancements is a result of incredible minds coming together. I wouldn't want limit or reduce the number of geniuses we get.
In the end, we do have problems, many if which are our own doing. But I like the approach of Matt Damon in the recent movie The Martian. When faced with the insurmountable task of trying to survive on Mars alone for multiple years without enough food or water his response was something along the lines of "Well that's a problem. Good thing I'm a scientist. I'm just going to science the s$&$ out of it." That's what we humans do. IMO of course.
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