reply to post by SkitzoFrenic
Ah yes it was once taboo to ask the question, 'is humanity a kind of cancer on the face of the planet?', that was the early 90's, now it's common
to see this sentiment, didn't realize depeche mode but makes sense.
I have been playing the role of this guy for decades now, the only non-humanist around, I'm kinda harsh in my theorizing I guess, just get to be
free, I like to say I'm not in politics, not in law enforcement, so it shouldn't really matter what wild unicorns run through this mind.
So I like to tell a story: The dinosaurs were like us, wearing suits, smoking cigars and drinking in bars, and going out to run in general depravity,
eating eachother's flesh in murderous canibalistic run ins in traffic on the way home at the end of a busy early earth day. Most just told each other
to go out and get laid and drink and smoke some more, and do some more of that murderous carniverous stuff, but there were three dinosaurs, walking on
two feet, who looked around and realized their species was evil. And when you realize your species is evil, isn';t self destruction, on a grand
scale, the right thing to do?
Well these three dinosaurs gathered one evening in the what is now the yucatan peninsula in mexico. They put on their conical hats, dark magicians
that they were, and bowed their heads, dancing around a campfire counterclockwise for three days, while waving their tails above their heads in
clockwise circles the whole time.
They stopped and slept for a day, then turned around and did three days in a clockwise circle, tails this time twirling counter clockwise.
After the second three days the asteroid came right down and hit the three of them on the head, and it took the rest of their "evil" world with
them, stored the entire jungle world in the most brilliant emeralds on the planet, as the dinosaurs now travel forward in time un encumbered by the
turbulence we now shoulder.
And with the weight of the universe on our upright walking shoulders, we now are starting to hypothesize about the nature of our own species. There's
you, that's one guy with a conical hat. I'm sitting this one out, but two more guys with concial hats you can call down quetzalcoatl, the nearby
asteroid in resonance that threatens our species. Do it, you three call it down, like I said I'm sitting this one out, as I was one of the original
three dinosaurs in the story, but you go ahead, I'm rootin for you!
Annihilation is too easy a cop out. We do have redeeming qualities and not all of
us are deserving of death. 
