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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Lead the way, Doc.
Clemson University Professor Todd May is a liberal fascist.
Get in line to die! Republicans, conservatives and NRA members FIRST!
Do you lefty ba$tids like Tawdry May know why we have a 2nd amendment?
Take a guess.
Come armed Tawd, just to make it interesting.
I’m about 50 miles away from Professor May and will burn a tire in his honor. The wind is blowing in his direction so hopefully some of the particulate matter will pay him a visit.
“A Clemson philosophy argued recently...”
I was under the impression Clemson’s philosophy was more about football, basketball and partying...maybe not in that order.
Won't the universe be frustrated that it hasn't achieved the "social justice" that is the very reason the "big bang" happened in the first place?
He’s looney-tunes.
Precisely!
Creepy dude
He is no Jean Luc Picard
This guy is giving voice to what most billionaires actually believe.
Well if they go first, that will solve the “redistribution” of wealth problem ...
“... writes on topics of anarchism, poststructuralism, and post-structuralist anarchism. ....”
Not a serious science course there in that!
He is a professor of nonsense! So why give him any forum what so ever?
The bigger question is "Why do taxpayer supported colleges & universities continue to pay for this this type of idiocy?"
FREEPS put pressure on your alumni association, state legislatures, if asked join your college & university governing boards & put heat on college presidents who allow this type of gibberish to masquerade as higher education!
“I suggest electroshock therapy twice a day for twenty-five years.”
Just once...in a “special” chair.
with “special” amperage ...
You first, dude!
Professor Todd May should lead by example.
Too much of current humanities writing has devolved into this type of post-modern gobbledygook. Impressive sounding words strung together without any meaning.
Why hasn’t he joined the Human Extinction Movement which has been around for decades?
I want to see how Dabo Swinney is going to work that approach into his recruiting pitch!
Tom Clancy did a novel on this subject, "Rainbow Six", which had as part of the plot-line a group of ultra-wealthy environmentalist elites wanting to create a plague to wipe out 99.99+% of the human race (with the exception of themselves in their bunker, of course), to "save the planet".
Well. . . .
1. Who is going to enjoy the world when all the humans are extinct? The animals? Will they be aware?
2. How will we know that the world is better off when all the humans are extinct? Maybe it will be worse off.
3. Does the good professor understand that some ideas are self-refuting?
Wernicke’s Aphasia.
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