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I think it's a fawkin grift tbphwchy. Seems like it's built on a bunch of unjustified/unjustifiable starting assumptions. How do we know how many of a given species are necessary? If we start counting up all the wolves and arrive at a given figure (let's say one hundred thousand for the sake of the argument) how do we know that it's not an unusually high population due to some temporary fluctuation in the environment? Then we go back and count thirty years later and it's dropped back down closer to the average and they start screaming that the wolves are endangered!! Soon they'll be extinct! Bullshit. They don't know that - all they have is a series of observations that doesn't tell us how it should be. All we can ever measure is how things are but these cultists somehow derive how things ought to be from bare facts.
Why is extinction a problem? "IT HURTS ECOSYSTEMS!!!" Meanwhile muh science also says that 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct. Okay, so why are the ecosystems still functioning? Because you're a bunch of retards who are full of shit? It would seem that in the long run extinction has a negligible effect on an ecosystem. Maybe it's a little unstable for a while but obviously things get back on track just fine.
Seems to me that most of this garbage hinges on emotionalism and moralism. "Save the whales!!!"
"Why?"
"WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO NATURE! "
"From where? God?"
"GOD NOT REAL IT'S JUST BAD BECAUSE IT MAKES ME SAD WHEN THINGS DIE"
"But sharks like it when whales die because then they can eat. Where do you derive your moral imperatives from?"
"IT'S JUST OBVIOUS! WE HAD 100000 WHALES AND NOW THERE'S ONLY 10000 LEFT!"
"Why is that bad?"
"NUMBER GO DOWN. THAT'S BAD."
Tired of this shit.
Why is extinction a problem? "IT HURTS ECOSYSTEMS!!!" Meanwhile muh science also says that 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct. Okay, so why are the ecosystems still functioning? Because you're a bunch of retards who are full of shit? It would seem that in the long run extinction has a negligible effect on an ecosystem. Maybe it's a little unstable for a while but obviously things get back on track just fine.
Seems to me that most of this garbage hinges on emotionalism and moralism. "Save the whales!!!"
"Why?"
"WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO NATURE! "
"From where? God?"
"GOD NOT REAL IT'S JUST BAD BECAUSE IT MAKES ME SAD WHEN THINGS DIE"
"But sharks like it when whales die because then they can eat. Where do you derive your moral imperatives from?"
"IT'S JUST OBVIOUS! WE HAD 100000 WHALES AND NOW THERE'S ONLY 10000 LEFT!"
"Why is that bad?"
"NUMBER GO DOWN. THAT'S BAD."
Tired of this shit.
