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This stuff really bugs me, I just saw one of these people on the news again... I'm sick of hearing how humans are a scourge to the earth, a cancer that is destroying thousands of species and stripping natural resources... Destroying the air, the soil, and the sea with pollution.

They just get off talking about how bad over population is and then, BAM, Mother Nature steps in with a natural disaster. AIDS strikes Africa and millions die. Earthquakes rock China and millions die. Tsunamis drown Southeast Asia and millions die. So, the nature-lovers, by all reasoning, ought to stand up and say, "See? The earth sends the worst disasters to the areas of highest population. Isn't it wonderful how nature keeps these pesky humans in check?" But they don't. They're usually the first to step forward and say how horrible it is that all these people are dying - right after they spoke out to say how bad the overpopulation is. No matter how blind you are, you can still have human empathy.

I think that some people become so obsessed with logic that human empathy is lost. The ability to feel and understand the pain of another is what makes us human, what makes us social animals at all. If you say that an entire nation of people should die because they're destroying nature ... don't forget that that is a nation of individual, each with their own story, each with people they love and people who love them, each with the same right to live as you. If you genuinely believe that humans should die, then start with yourself. Infact, I'll give you the razorblade and cheer you on. If you can't do that, then there's no reason anyone else should.

We're just one more animal race trying to survive. You say we destroy our surroundings to build cities? So do termites, on a scale grander than anything humans have built. You say we've caused the extinction of species? So did the dinosaurs - had they not been wiped out, mammals never would have gotten bigger than little Purgatorium, the tree shrew. Don't inflate your opinion of yourself so much to think that, on the grand scheme of things as measure in hundreds of million years, that the human race can do any real damage.

What are your thoughts on this?