Re: El Reg etc. [was Re: Fake Apple Order Acknowledgements]

Richard Tobin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <1h9bp84.kjy6jkiw6y5wN%pd.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> PeterD <pd.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On the contrary, this idea that we're all just a bunch of separate
> >entities, and we can *** over the other species and our shared
> >environment does far more harm.
>
> On the other hand, it has the advantage of being true.

I'll grant that we have the ability to extinguish species, and generally
wreck the environment, but you'll have a hard time convincing me that
humans could survive on this earth all on their lonesome. So no, we're
all just a bunch of separate entities. Half that advantage, then.

> >Thinking of the earth "as if it were alive" might help us realise that
> >destroying Indonesian rainforest to plant palm oil plantations, or drag
> >netting the ocean floor and similar moronic commercially motivated
> >anthropocentric idiocies isn't going to do us much good in the medium,
> >let alone long term.
>
> Or it might lead us to believe that terrorism is justified, and that
> polar bears are as important as humans.

Anything seems capable of leading people to believe terrorism is
justified. It just gets called something different if you're a big
powerful nation.

And polar bears are just as important as humans. As indeed, are Apple
Macintoshes. It only depends on context.

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