Reply #39: And just who is supposed to clean up our frimpin' mess, Overkil?

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you said " I'm tired of being told that humans have to fix the world's problems (ya I know we caused most of them, but)."

Okay, I don't know how it was in your house growing up, but in my house and in all of the houses I ever visited, the rule was, you make the mess, you clean it up.

We've made a big mess. But this isn't survival of the fittest because the other competitors aren't even in the same arena, much less starting from the same starting line.

Used to be that a lion could take one of us down because we don't run as fast or have teeth as big. Now, we have long metal tubes use the principle of exploding gases to propel small bits of metal into the lions to kill them. Rats used to kill us regularly with plague, typhoid, and Hanta. Now we have anti-biotics. The playing field needs a little grading.... it's not very level any more.

We have the conscience, the ability to reason and plan, the ability to think. We should use them. Because if we don't, we might just be slitting our own throats and destroying the plant that will enable us to do something grand....

Hedging our bets is in our best interest.

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