Posted on 01/28/2019 6:41:09 AM PST by blam
A Clemson philosophy argued recently that he wants all humans to die off as a punishment for their treatment of animals and the environment. Since his article was published in the New York Times, he has refused to defend his opinion.
According to a report from The College Fix, Clemson University Professor Todd May recently called for the end of human existence and has refused to defend his argument. May argued that humans do far more bad than good. What are humanity’s worst crimes according to the professor? These include oppression of animals and destruction of the environment.
The New York Times column, which was titled “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?” was published in late December. In the column, May weighs humanity’s positive contributions to the world against its negative contributions.
First, human contribution to climate change is devastating ecosystems, as the recent article on Yellowstone Park in The Times exemplifies. Second, increasing human population is encroaching on ecosystems that would otherwise be intact. Third, factory farming fosters the creation of millions upon millions of animals for whom it offers nothing but suffering and misery before slaughtering them in often barbaric ways. There is no reason to think that those practices are going to diminish any time soon. Quite the opposite. Humanity, then, is the source of devastation of the lives of conscious animals on a scale that is difficult to comprehend.
And then May hit his readers with his conclusion. “It may well be, then, that the extinction of humanity would make the world better off and yet would be a tragedy. I don’t want to say this for sure, since the issue is quite complex,” May wrote. “But it certainly seems a live possibility, and that by itself disturbs me.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Democrats are evil.
But is his blah-blah-blah intelligable?
... Rather than focusing on identity and binary relations, this involves conceptualizing a state of intensive becoming that not only vanquishes the codes associated with a specific space or mode of being but also propels the subject towards the exploration of new lands, new positions, new possibilities, etc. The concept of becoming plays a pivotal role in Deleuzian philosophy -in many ways, it transcends the mere status of concept as it underlies the whole of Deleuze’s philosophy (May 2003). Every becoming involves a process of deterritorialization, with the process of becoming establishing ‘a zone of proximity’ (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, 273) between two categories. ...
Jan 2003
Here’s a better article on the subject which Breitbart is simply regurgitating:
and the original article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/opinion/human-extinction-climate-change.html
“...It may well be, then, that the extinction of humanity would make the world better off ...”
Lets start with democrats then pause and see where we are at.
I call for the extinction of pernty-headed perfessers! ;-)
That way, when a tree falls in the forest, they’ll be no one around to hear it. Right meathead?
He regards the welfare of non-human animals to be a higher good than the welfare of the human race, and would react with horror if somebody told him that they care more about the welfare of their own offspring than they care about the Spotted Owl.
From the excerpt, the author’s analysis is 100% correct, and he does not appear to be calling for human extinction. He’s recognizing the damage humans do. The ridiculous part is that “making the world better” begs the question, “for whom?”; it’s an anthropocentric conceit that loses all meaning without a beneficiary.
There’s that gosh darn word, “Professor” again.
They’re dumber than a box of rocks. Destroyed be liberalism.
“I suggest electroshock therapy twice a day for twenty-five years.”
Just once...in a “special” chair.
He looks like a Caucasian Tojo to me.
This is what happens when you close the insane asylums. They were useful in maintaining a baseline for sane and rational thinking among people for the benefit of society.
Now the sane and rational must continually defend themselves against unfettered lunacy.
He's the type who would jump out a basement window.
Humans are 100% natural, every bit as natural and essential to the Earth as ring-tailed lemurs. According to the order of nature, strong animals dominate and eat the weak. Using animals to do work or to eat them is natural and normal.
Naturally this idiocy was published in the nyt, a contrary-to-nature illiterate waste of trees.
They are daring us to exterminate them.
Todd May:
You go first.
You first, NutCase.
And in response, I call for the extinction of the environment to protect humans. /sarc
JoMa
(Notice they don't want the third world to produce energy, lest they become self-sufficient and demand compensation for the theft of their resources.)
Dem guys is pikers.
Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler are the real heroes!
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