It’s interesting that coincidentally after I published this: http://animalcare.my/2013/07/07/an-owners-reluctance-to-have-her-female-dog-spayed/, a friend forwarded the link to a forum discussing the neutering and spaying of animals from a religious point of view.
I read some of the views and a few were realistic, quoting the suffering they had seen on the streets and were therefore supportive of neutering. A few were expounding the issue from the standpoint of moral righteousness and pre-birth-post-death world views. After all, it IS a religious forum, so such views would be expected.
But I found this view particularly interesting:
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern… a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we… are the cure.”
Looks like humans are the ones that need to be spayed first…
Large scale sterilization might help to reduce the burgeoning and utterly unsustainable growth of human population. People could be offered substantial cash incentives to have the procedure done (which should always be completely voluntary). They could then use the money to gain better access to education, which could improve their lives and the planet, rather then just popping out yet more humans. If we don’t correct ourselves, eventual food shortages, hunger, disease and starvation will. So it would save a lot of pain and trouble if we started on such a program now, imo.
Now, what would you say to that?
I was tickled by the fact that the commenter equated humans beings to viruses! I can’t say I disagree, actually, because I’ve always reflected on this: Humans think they rule the earth (now) and are the masters of all living beings, but eventually the ones who will destroy humans and rule the earth would be the viruses!
It’s true, we humans will either die of old age (if we’re lucky), accident or disease, and most incurable life-threatening diseases are caused by a fungus, a bacteria or a virus!
The meek shall inherit the earth, and we’re not talking about lambs here, are we?
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3 responses to “What humans and viruses have in common”
Actually, the first paragraph that you quoted is a line from Matrix, a movie. : p
Ha ha….no wonder! Was wondering who the “we” was referring to!!
I think, in a way, all those natural disasters, is one way nature interferes for population control. For example, the Tsunami on 26 Dec 2004, hundreds of thousands of humans were wiped out. Then there are many others in recent years. Humans killing one another (war) is one way of population control.
It is with human’s interference that the eco-system becomes inbalance. We clear forests in the name of development, thus creating global warming. We create all kinds of things with fancy packaging that increases pollution (air, water and garbage). Find me a river that is crystal clear that we can just drink without worrying about dying (very very rare now)
We are all becoming plastic. The water we drink is plastic, the food we eat is plastic. It will become like in the movie Wall-E. I can imagine in the near future, we will become that if we are not careful.