Posted on 09/21/2010 6:10:23 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Better enjoy the Lion King while you can. Flipper could also be gone soon. If a certain nutty professor has his way, all lions, dolphins, as well as all other carnivorous animals on this planet would be selected for controlled extinction for the "high crime" of eating meat and causing suffering in other animals. I kid you not.
In a long, rambling, seemingly endless opinion piece in the New York Times that comes off like a bizarre mixture of Dr. Strangelove and Professor Irwin Corey, Rutgers philosphy professor Jeff McMahan makes the case for playing God in the animal kingdom because of his assertion that God was flawed for allowing animal suffering in the wild:
Viewed from a distance, the natural world often presents a vista of sublime, majestic placidity. Yet beneath the foliage and hidden from the distant eye, a vast, unceasing slaughter rages. Wherever there is animal life, predators are stalking, chasing, capturing, killing, and devouring their prey. Agonized suffering and violent death are ubiquitous and continuous...
...Suppose that we could arrange the gradual extinction of carnivorous species, replacing them with new herbivorous ones. Or suppose that we could intervene genetically, so that currently carnivorous species would gradually evolve into herbivorous ones, thereby fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy. If we could bring about the end of predation by one or the other of these means at little cost to ourselves, ought we to do it?
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What... the... f?
Where are these idiots coming from? Who in their sane mind would even begin to entertain this as a rational idea?
Yeah laugh but what does it say about the Political Class that they use their propaganda organs to publish shut insane rantings? Don't tell me they could not find better things to publish.
A freaky future when squirrels rule the earth!
Get rid of the carnivores, with da biting and da snarling and da eating HEY LADY!!!
This cubicle-dweller has obviously never observed what happens in an ecosystem when predators are removed form the ‘circle of life.’
Send this learned professor pictures of starving deer — who have nothing to eat due to over-population.
What a maroon. Educated but stoopid.
How about extinction of all liberals??
Hey idiot professor, this would just create an evolutionary gap that another animal would just evolve to fill.
Man is always trying to work his way back to the Garden of Eden...by his own will. He is his own god.
My my. How will that bear get those nasty blood stains out of that rug?
Yet another example of over-educating a truly stupid person...
Only someone in academia could come up with an idea like this. If not for his job at a college, this guy would be living in his parents’ basement, posting his crazy ideas on a vegan blog.
Mark
Because animals don’t suffer when the lack of predators leads to overpopulation and starvation.
Not with GI Joe on our side!
The Faculty of an Ivy League School .... DOHHHH
Take animal and plants off the menu, and what you do have left? Mmmmmmmmm . . . . minerals!
There have always been crazy opinion pieces... But why does it seem now when you scroll down to the author’s bio it’s a freak’n college professor.
so he wants to kill dogs and cats too I guess? He comes near either of my animals I’ll make him extinct. Assuming someone followed through on his plan herbivores would multiply to the point where they would destroy every plant on earth. (and of course I think he’d have an issue with us shooting them)
“For God must answer to animals as well.”
Uhhhmmmmm, read the whole Bible, buddy—God doesn’t answer to anyone, let alone animals. If you’re going to cherry-pick it you ought to at least have a passing familiarity with it.
Anything to get a share of the limelight. I have a sister in law that would support this ALL THE WAY. This year at our family reunion she went on a tirade about “all the houses” on the beach and how “we cruelly displaced bees, snakes, birds and fox from their natural habitat”. She would grimace with disgust whenever we cooked hamburgers on the grill. “That’s disgusting and on par with murder”. Then she complained about all the jellyfish and said “what’s up with these little bastards?! I can’t even go swimming”! True story.
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