The Importance of Ebola

[Patrick O'Neil]

On 13 May 1995, Jeff Goldrich wrote:

> bt784 at FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Ken Dudman) wrote:
> >
> 
> >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. 
> >What do you think?
> 
> I think you should be the first to go!
> Your logic is flawed and sick. 
> 

Not from a purely objective standpoint.  It is not considered odd, crazy, 
or sick, by many people (they ARE wrong, however) to "cull" the 
population of dear for the sake of their own survival.  This is actually 
a euphamism for "I wanna go shoot me some deer and hang a dead animal on 
my wall."  Objectively, what was stated above is no different and COULD 
be a benefit.  This IS different from actually advocating an 
encouragement of this fate.  I can just as easily take an objective 
position and go over everything that the NAZIs of WWII should have done 
to win the war, in spite of the fact that they were morally corrupt and 
reprehensible.  My suggestions would have been to their benefit but then, 
so what, it is an OBJECTIVE exercise.

Patrick