Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!medin From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Experts:Are they all Milos? Message-ID: <3767@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 21:34:15 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3767 Posted: Tue Dec 11 21:34:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 14:33:21 EST References: <1133@drusd.UUCP> <2082@randvax.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 46 > -- To the bug that will probably inherit the Earth: *morituri te salutant* -- > > Milo, > I have at length been persuaded by your argument. Not by its substance, > but by the fact that a human being was able to utter it. > A race capable of this sort of atavistic thinking, discussing, > dispassionately, "countervalues" and "megatonnage," when what is being balanced > against ephemeral political considerations is the fate of all God's creation on > this planet, is maladaptive -- and not merely maladaptive, but profoundly, > immitigably evil. It can, in fact, do no better than to yield its small patch > of the universe to the next random sequence of nucleotides to infuse the void > with intelligence, and hope only that that intelligence comports also an > element of decency -- the humanity that we who trifle to contemplate Armageddon > so utterly and completely lack. > So, yes, let's each get a shovel -- dig the hole miles deep -- and when we > emerge from the north-to-south, coast-to-coast nuclear firestorm that Milo > imagines we'll somehow survive, into the foul, contaminant, irremediably > radioactive nuclear winter of a dying planet -- lethally raped by its unique > sentient inhabitants -- we'll have perhaps the consolation that all the members > of our own species who happen to have been born on another continent, and with > whose leaders we once *disagreed politically*, are also dead. In the cold, the > dark, the lifeless, infertile emptiness, without food, witout potable water, > consumed from within by radiation sickness and inanition, we should have hours > or days to meditate on this comforting reflection. And to watch the human > race...go out. > > > -- > > ..akgua!uf-csv!mark Mark Fishman > CSNET: mark@ufl Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences > University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611 > > The opinions herein expressed are irrelevant, inflammatory and possibly > fattening. They do not represent those of the University of Florida or of any > > known biological organism or mythical construct. Good grief... This is what some people call rationality. This reminds me of an instance where Teller was giving a talk at UC and someone asked him a question in the same vain... He just stood there, looked a bit puzzled, and sighed. Milo