Comments on: Humans need a natural predator

By: Scottrich

Scottrich — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:27:35 +0000

I do agree with you on some points. However, what if a predator only selected those who were smart and fast (stay with me here for a second) and left all of the fat stupid people. Yes, in theory the smarter gene pool should be able to overcome such perils, but that’s assuming that all the scary movies about dinosaurs and meteors attacking the planet are true (we can’t always win). Life as a cycle is all about procreation and consumption, when we are gone something will take our place. The only problem with your logic is that mankind in all his wisdom unfortunately retains the capacity for empathy, and moral values. Would you be able to kill your kids in order to save one million people? If not, then how can you justify such a proposal. It would be tragic, and it would merely slow the process because the smart and fast people would eventually re-populate the planet, and once safe would again dirty the gene pool with the fat and stupid people. The only alternative is to accept life knowing that you can’t have the good without the bad. As rudimentary as it sounds, the law of universalizability is true on many levels.

By: Bryce Wade

Bryce Wade — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:07:09 +0000

i have to agree with you on some level. humans love to think that just because their smarter than other creatures that they get to do whatever the heck they want. only problem is that humans are too good at adapting when their lives are in danger. any creature that could kill us, regardless of how strong it is, would be killed by us eventually (humans are only resourceful when they have to be). but you made a valid point in lecture that mother nature seems to be killing us every time we start living longer. for humans, i guess the only thing stronger than us is the planet itself.

By: J. Kennedy

J. Kennedy — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:42:59 +0000

I totally agree with this, only i will take it one step further. We wonder why all of these things are happening to us that when we look back into history there are many fewer cases of such things. We have been slowly killing this planet. Now the planet is taking revenge. Every time we find a cure for something two new diseases pop up that we’ve never heard of and can’t fix right away. The planet is our new natural predator. We’ve been trying to kill it for a hundred years and we have just recently seen the effects. The planets retribution will come much more swiftly.