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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I believe in liberals committing suicide. Him first.
It’s safe to say that the weaker species are in danger of becoming extinct.
But “in danger”? To stick with the professor’s selection, only the human species is in danger. That species is in danger of being destroyed by a superior species. What’s wrong with that? It’s how nature works.
Let’s just make sure that the human species, especially certain subspecies within it, aren’t weak. It’s up to us, fellow humans and fellow members of our subspecies, to continue our existence and actually become stronger.
Todd May needs to join the “Away Team’ and take a walk down the Santa Monica Pier and wait for the Mothership. He lives in a dreamworld where he has reached that level of human evolution above all humans. He believes he holds the keys to Heaven’s Gate. I would give him his five-dollar bill and three quarters and a package of Kool Aid.
Leftists. History shows that any excuse for mass murder is a good one from their perspective. The reasons are often different but when they get absolute power the result is always the same: stacks of bodies as far as the eye can see. Make no mistake, it CAN happen here and it WILL happen here unless this relentless tide of an ascendant left is checked.
So all humans need to die to save all the trees. Why?
Talk about the tail wagging the dog.
OK professor, you first :)
Sometimes I think these professors say these things as a joke just to see how seriously they’re taken.
At least he is honest about his true feelings....
I think one symbolic extinction would suffice.
And I see a candidate.
So why doesn’t he “show us the way”?
My guess is he isn’t human in any meaningful sense of the word.
From Dictionary.com
“insane[in-seyn]
adjective
1. not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a person who is mentally deranged:
2. insane actions; an insane asylum.
utterly senseless:
3. an insane plan.
Looking at colleges right now for my daughter. Every time one of these deranged idiots go off that school gets stricken from the list.
Makes it easier to figure out which schools are well run and which ones are bug houses.
Professorial nitwits should be first to make the sacrifice for the “earth”.
If he REALLY cared about the animals, he would strip himself naked, walk into the woods on a freezing day, and allow his body to become food for his animal gods.
Otherwise it is just bold talk.
Another pointy-headed liberal, looking at the world from their
ivory tower, through the wrong end of a telescope.
Tie him to a fence post, soak him with diesel, and light a match. Then, ask him how committed he is to human extinction...
The scary thing is there are people on university campuses who agree with him, and also have the bioengineering capabilities to make it happen.
This guy is way behind the times. Prof. Eric Pianka from University of Texas, Austin has been on the same kick for a couple decades and teaching his students that wiping out 90% of the human population with Ebola would be a good thing. Of course, he’s not standing at the front of the line.
I really doubt that he wants EVERY human dead...so my question to him, and Democrat Party (who supports him) - who gets to live, and how are those decisions made?
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