Ccincy: Maybe it would've been better with no world at all.End of all problems.
Since "better" and "worse" are issues of perspective and since there would be no perspective if the world had never existed and, therefore, no life existed to "perceive", things could be neither better nor worse if the world had never existed.
It's like saying.... maybe if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
gininitaly: I certainly think the planet is better off without people TODAY.
just today? i think the planet earth should also have some holidays. During those holidays, we human can go to another planet so that our planet can take some rest.
gardenhackle: Since "better" and "worse" are issues of perspective and since there would be no perspective if the world had never existed and, therefore, no life existed to "perceive", things could be neither better nor worse if the world had never existed.
It's like saying.... maybe if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
I think you're missing my point.
I"ll agree to disagree with you and leave it at that before it becomes an argument.
mnowsa: just today? i think the planet earth should also have some holidays. During those holidays, we human can go to another planet so that our planet can take some rest.
I think it would be a good step in the right direction if we just started with all the illegal Mexican immigrants going back to Mexico.
I"ll agree to disagree with you and leave it at that before it becomes an argument.
I'm not sure we even disagree. I'm just discussing this from a philsophical perspective. Perhaps that's the disconnect. You seem to be posting more from an emotional perspective.
gardenhackle: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it crush the tree hugger who chained himself to the limb, was the tree-hugger still an idiot?
I don't accept that. I know some very inteligent and clever people who have been known to hug trees, sorry but if you're going to come out with crap like that you have to state who gave it to whom and where and when and possibly even why or nobody will b'leve u.
venusenvy: Im sure Mexicans believe the world was a better place before the arrival of europeans. I bet first Nations peeps think the same
First nations peeps maybe, but most, if not all Mexicans wouldn't exist if Europeans hadn't shown up. I think you have to go a bit further south than Mexico to get populations that don't have high levels of European DNA.
Feb 8, 2011 10:56 AM CST Would the planet be better off without people?
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TrueBlue1986Sale, South Manchester, Cheshire, England UK1,322 posts
SUNSHINEB0Y: I don't accept that. I know some very inteligent and clever people who have been known to hug trees, sorry but if you're going to come out with crap like that you have to state who gave it to whom and where and when and possibly even why or nobody will b'leve u.
Tree huggers are not idiots because they have a low intellect they are idiots because they're over-emotional wrecks living in a fantasy, and they have little or no gratitude for all the positive things mankind does and has done,
And I really don't think Hippy's need any help making themselves look foolish, so I can't say I care for who does believe me.
Conrad73: I can see it now! My Lathe and Vertical Mill on a rampage across the Planet!
assisted expertly by my Toolroom! It's all to do how People apply the technology! Typical example,Western Germany and the cruddy polluted Landscape of the former People's Republic of Germany! Or the extreme Pollution in the Former Soviet-Union!
SUNSHINEB0Y: I know some very inteligent and clever people who have been known to hug trees.
True. I have to agree. Some aren't idiots. Some are just nucking futz. Intelligence is not proof of sanity. And while it's easy enough to cross-label the clinically insane as bona fide idiots, these are two distinctly different conditions that don't have any known direct relationship with each other.
gardenhackle: And just imagine the carnage your high speed micromotor deburring tool with carbide bits could wreak on civilization if it escaped from your shop.
I think you've watched one too many episodes of "Tim 'Tool Time' Taylor"...
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Since "better" and "worse" are issues of perspective and since there would be no perspective if the world had never existed and, therefore, no life existed to "perceive", things could be neither better nor worse if the world had never existed.
It's like saying.... maybe if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.