Aw, CLinton, you don't have to justify your beliefs. I'm sorry if I sounded like I was beatin' on you.   I was just really interested because I don't think I know anyone else who seriously asserts the species should be subtracted. I guess most people are pretty deeply immersed in the local scene to the point that they cannot assess the planet or the species from the outside.

But the other thing is that this is the only place I know where such interesting viewpoints hang out. (I mean Earth, not Mudcat). If the species got extincted we'd all have to learn the hard way how to communicate without bodies -- the whole sensory channel would be gone. We'd bump into each other like a bunch of blind guys with the lights out. Why? Because we have so much accumulated dependency on sensory channels.

It would be like all the computers in the world stopping at once -- all those dependencies would go flying in all directions, eh? What a mess that would be. I wouldn't know where to turn for love and laughter and just good communication without a species and a planet. It would take millenia to reconstruct it all.

Way I feel about it is similar to a 4th of July speech that appeared in the Congressional Record in 1976, the bicentennial, which closed with the line, "After two hundred years, it's too soon to quit!". You could look it up. It is one of the few pieces of my Dad's legacy that I have never forgotten or outgrown.



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