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“...were it to become public knowledge, would be considered evil, or at best certifiably insane.”

I grant that he is evil, but I doubt the label of insane in fitting, any more than it would be for Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or other sociopaths.

I call them sociopaths, instead of psychopaths, and yet the two terms are not mutually exclusive. Psychopaths are neurologically incapable of empathy with other people, to varying degrees on a large scale. They may be otherwise mentally normal, and most are not even violent, having other mechanisms to avoid abusing others.

Sociopaths may or may not be psychopaths, but have been *trained* to not have empathy for others. The average education in the Waffen SS was to have a Master’s degree, and yet many were trained to be sociopathic.

This is not, as supposed, done with brutal training, but intellectual persuasion. And this is a telling point. Dr. Pianka is, in effect, teaching an audience of scientists and students to be sociopaths like him, and they have voluntarily been persuaded to become sociopaths.

By any reasonable definition astoundingly evil, but the furthest thing from being insane. And its secretiveness, my point, is not out of fear from the public, but out of *contempt* for the public.

Were you to ask Dr. Pianka or many of his colleagues, they would assure you that the public are far too “ignorant and uneducated” to appreciated the proposed genocide. The ivory tower “us and them” attitude.

At this point, I would like to reference a positively *charming* book, still in print after all these years, which can proudly brag of a book review by none other than the illustrious Abraham Lincoln, who called it “The most dangerous book ever written.”

Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), by George Fitzhugh. On the surface it appears to be a passionate defense of slavery. But it is more than just a defense, it advocates that slavery is such a powerful force for good, that 9 out of 10 humans should be slaves. Only 1 in 10 are fit enough to be masters. (The book assumes that anyone smart enough to read and agree is by definition, one of the 1 in 10).

Importantly, this 90% theory crops up on its own, independently, very frequently in socialism, and it even did so in the proto-socialism that preceded it.

Fitzhugh was content, however, that 90% of people be slaves. But that is not good enough for Dr. Pianka, who wants 90% of people to be exterminated.

And yet the “us and them” theme is very consistent. Only we, the elites, should rule, dominate and survive. The rest of mankind are contemptible and expendable. (And invariably, the opinion of the 90% does not matter, so trying to teach them this sociopathy is just a waste of time.)

Insane, no. Evil beyond measure, proven.

Which goes to my follow up comment, namely “what do we do with thousands of people who philosophically embrace genocide?”