The Importance of Ebola

[John Levin]

In article <D8HnCF.6ME at freenet.carleton.ca>, bt784 at FreeNet.Carleton.CA says...
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>        Ok, I know I may get flamed for this,
>If Ebola  was to spread across the world and take out 90% of the
>popullation, I believe this could be a great benefit to man in the long
>run. Things are seemingly out of control these days with all the advancing
>technology and over popullation. 

	(moronic nonsense skipped)

>since the 10% of the survivors would be
>starting a new world with their advanced knowledge, maybe they could
>create a less destructive and self-centered way of life. Maybe they would
>finally respect the earth they survive off of and know that screwing with
>it will only bring them trouble (new diseases).

	(more moronic nonsense omitted)

>I don't see it as a catastrophy, I see it as something that is necessary
>for the earth's and human's long lasting survival.
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>What do you think?


Well, chappie, right you are...(flame on)...you are indeed a moron. A 90% mortality 
rate would actually turn out to more closely approach a 99.9% mortality rate as the 
survivors died of followup disease, starvation, accidents and exposure. The 
survivors would be unlikely to be well, read, intellectual chaps like you. More 
probably, they'd be subsistance farmers or hunter-gatherers who could survive nearly 
anything. G-d save us all from your kind of intellectual altruism.

Incidentally...the earth is not in danger. There is very little that mankind can do 
to the earth that isn't reversable in a geologic age or so. It is the human race 
that is in danger here...and if you're an example of someone possessing 'advanced 
knowledge', I'd say we're doomed.