[Maceman]

“I have not found adequate reasons to show that the extinction of the human species—provided it is voluntary—would inevitably be a bad thing,” she writes. “We matter to ourselves, of course, but it is in no way evident that humanity matters to anyone else. If we were to disappear, members of other species would soon forget us and get along without us.”

Unbelievable. I wonder if she would apply the same reasoning to, say, the spotted owl. Or the snail darter. Or the Polar Bears. Hell, you could even employ the same argument about About life on earth in general.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I wonder if she would apply the same reasoning to, say, the spotted owl. Or the snail darter. Or the Polar Bears."

I've always found that one of the most profound (among many) secularist/liberal paradoxes. The same people who espouse a darwinian weltanschauung, will pull out all the stops to preserve a species that is approaching extinction because of what they themselves would describe as an inability to "adapt." Yet, they are eager to exterminate those humans who they deem "unfit," in spite of the efforts of others to protect and care for them.