Reply #4: mike_c please report for mandatory sterilization!

[hunter]

"The only way we can preserve and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinquishing the freedom to breed, and that very soon."

Garrett Hardin used to irritate the hell out of me, especially when I was in college. A couple of times I had the pleasure of meeting him, and I told him as much.

Heh. He always took that opportunity to yank my chain.

If I was a masochist I'd go back and dig through some of the stuff I wrote about him, and to him, but instead I used google and I found this:

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/

Horrors! Hardin always made me think, but often it was the same way that living through a car wreck makes you think. It's not exactly a happy memory, even though you'll forever praise the use of seatbelts. (I speak as one who had seatbelt bruises on my chest and hips, and held a broken steering wheel in my hands.

Much of the current conflagrations of the Sierra Club can be traced back to Hardin. I quit the Sierra Club during a similar conflagration, and I'm glad I did. I don't need that bullshit. There are guys working in the fields, illegal aliens, who are far better men than I am. Their kids will know how to do the right thing. If not, humanity dies, and Mother Nature cleans up our mess. Mother Nature has all the time in the world. Mankind's garbage simply becomes a peculiar layer in the fossil record.

I never really knew if Garret Hardin was attributing too much or too little to the power of the human spirit. But simply seeing his picture, and hearing his name, yanks my chains again.