psuvm%cjc@psuvax.UUCP (03/21/84)
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I get the impression that the primary goal of most of the writers here is:
Every human life must be preserved as long as possible at any cost.
If I misunderstand, please enlighten me. If this is accurate, then I have
two questions:
Why? and For how long?
I believe it to be fact that the human race has in this century grown
many times more numerous than it ever was before, and that, due to this
growth, most other forms of life are dwindling in number, some to
endangered levels and some are already gone, and the population
growth still continues.
In China where they know well the horrors of real famine and are trying
hard to reduce their numbers, preventive contraception is not sufficient;
I see no reason to expect it to be more effective here. Short of another
'Black Death' I see nothing to prevent us from making the entire earth
into an immense produce farm holding nothing but humans and their food
supply.
I would like to think that this blind destruction is due to
something 'better' than the common instinct that makes a mouse
defend its young and a bumblebee, its sisters. So I ask again
What is man that you are so overwhelmingly mindful of him?
C. Clark
CJC@PSUVM (BITNET)