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To: Michael M who wrote (65271)	12/6/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: pezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<gross bug >> Well now you are looking at the bug from the visual aesthetic view point.To a biologist the beauty in the bug lies in it's amazing adaptations that have suited it perfectly to it's environment....For millions of years it has overcome all the odds and flourished while others fell by the way side.It's adaptability has proven supreme in bugdom. And you wish to squash it on a whim..... Aha...says you but it's adaptations didn't save it from my boot. You see Mike that's the point. This is a new day. We live in unprecedented times. Never in the history of life on earth has any one species dominated as we do. We can drive any species [ save the microbs ] to extinction as we wish. Nothing can stand in our way...Competition over! Game set and match. What kind of winners shall we be? <<Without exception, every species acts in its self interest. >> Self interest means to increase it's numbers at the expense of every other species. Before said dominance amazing how well this worked.Survival of the fittest. Kept the balance. Created an ecosystem of the best of the best.And today we see the spectacular results of billions of years of this simple rule in action. In it's simplicity lies it's beauty.This world is our inheritance. The rules of the game no longer apply when the game is over. What kind of world will we live in if we continue to play by this rule now that the game is over? Does it make sense to destroy what took billions of years to create? To squash the bug because we cannot understand it's beauty? We were assigned the roll of stewards as the reward for our victory....It is an honor that we should be proud of. If you can't see this you are still playing the game that has already been won...

To: Michael M who wrote (65271)	12/6/1999 5:17:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think you've got some rotten biotheory there. Every animal acts out a preprogrammed genetically established behavioral code. Some of them can be trained or bred to do things that make them worthwhile for man raise and keep. Most animals have no concept of self interest. Deprive them of their accustomed food and they will die surrounded by piles of nutricious stuff they don't recognize as food. Dogs, those lovable mutts, will knock themselves out to please people. I have a border collie that will not eat brocoli. I have a streetwise Abyssinian mountain dog who will eat anything. Dogs will even sacrifice themselves to save their masters, I am told. They will certainly housebreak themselves. Man is the only species capable of enlightened self interest. Only a few of them, of course. But babies won't housebreak themselves.