Re: The family in the cellar

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netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (netcat) wrote:

> 
> But that aside, is there cause to believe some other species 
> would build a much better civilization? Or perhaps, in a few 
> hundred million years, we're back to the point of the planet 
> being better off without a species sufficiently advanced to 
> potentially muck up the ecosystem. To believe you, once you get 
> that far, the responsible thing to do is to stop and commit 
> collective suicide. I'm not much fond of suicide as a solution, 
> on either personal or planetary scale.

I'm not advocating it so much as looking on the bright side from a
personal point of view.  In moments of introspection, I ponder my own
childless state, not a matter of choice but from being so shy that
getting into a relation****p far enough to actually produce children is
so out of the question.  I began to wonder what it would be like if
everyone was like me.  Well, I thought, after a hundred years or so,
it'd be rather quiet.  Might be a good thing for the planet.