On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, sodom wrote:
> I love reading stuff like that, then laughing - Of course we should
> outnumber and dominate them. There is no morality involved - nature made
> this choice for us.
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> If we are going to add some sense of morality to it, then outnumbering
> and dominating will not change, the issue will then become protecting
> and preserving. Not preserving the way the other animals are, but
> insuring all species have the opportunity to continue evolving as
> opposed to extinction or preserving in current form. There is no doubt
> that we are becoming the worlds caretakers - whether we like it or not.
>
> On a different note: What's everyone think about the Japanese trying to
> clone a Woolly Mammoth?? Now that is cool if you ask me - but my
> friends say that that is tampering - I say, if it can be done, we should
> do it!
>
> Also - the Sun will not engulf the Earth when it expands, that is an old
> concept. I believe that now we think that the Sun will lose a lot of
> mass during its final years, and that the Earth will move a bit further
> out in its orbit, just far enough away to become a 1000 degree cinder
> ball floating in space.
>
> Sodom
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> Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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> > Eric Boyd wrote:
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> > I don't think that one can support any ideology which derives what
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> >> should be from what is... that is, just becuase we out number them
> >> doesn't
> >> mean we should.
> >>
> >> ERiC
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> > A valid point, but if life has any purpose at all it is to live.
> > Since we are the fittest of the bunch due to the powerful nature of
> > meme replication, we are life's best hope. When the sun expands and
> > engulfs the earth billions of years from now, I'm confident that life
> > from earth will be all over the universe, thanks to man.
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