Cull The Humans!

Our species has evolved on a pristine 4.5 billion year old planet and ruined it with 8 to 10 thousand years, and it’s not improving as we march headlong into the future. At seven plus billion and rapidly increasing, human life is cheap. So if there is any one species on Planet Earth that needs culling desperately, it’s the human species. Fortunately, humans do a somewhat reasonable job of doing just that, but as the report card always says, “could do better”.

You know there’s something very terribly wrong when non-human species are disappearing and going extinct at a rapid rate of knots while humanity breeds and breeds and keeps increasing its numbers by leaps and bounds.

Abortion: Anything that has prevented millions of brats from being inflicted on the world has got to be a good thing and needs to be encouraged. More of same please. And as a bonus, all those brats that never were, never turned into adults; adults that never were and didn’t breed even more brats. Yippee! 

Animal Attacks: Humans kill millions of animals a day (including fish) for fun and profit so it is only fitting and just deserts that every once in an all too extremely rae while, animals even up the score – well hardly even since the ratio is still millions and millions to one. Of course if you include all those bacteria and viruses as ‘animals’ then the score is a bit more balanced. And isn’t it lovely how all those nasty bacteria are developing ever increasing resistance to human antibiotics. We’re really overdue for a pandemic.

Bioterrorism: All you wannabe mad scientists out there bring it on!

Birth Control: This is a painless way of keeping the human population under control. Can you imagine the benefits if this practice were increased 100-fold!

Death Penalty/Capital Punishment: If you know the law of the land and you persist in paying your money and taking your chances, well, so be it. Maybe the death penalty prevents some people from doing stupid things; maybe not. However, the one absolute benefit of capital punishment is that the offender will not ever be a repeat offender, and it’s got to be a cheaper option to the taxpayer that keeping someone locked away for the term of their natural life.

Drug Use and Abuse: Hey, it’s a victimless ‘crime’ and if it kills the user, well that’s another user loser who bit the dust and as far as I’m concerned, the more who eat dust, the better.

Extreme Sports: People risking their necks by participating in extreme sports make me extremely happy if it results in an extreme number of fatalities.

Gun Control: I don’t think so. Guns don’t kill people; people kill people using guns and the more of that the better. I understand that, for example, a significant number of firearm-related deaths in the US of A are caused by young black males to other young black males. I’ve got no issue with this at all. We just need a contest to determine the last young black male standing.

Internal Conflicts in Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, etc: Muslims killing Muslims by the thousands! Hey, I got no problem with that. As Sarah Palin said, let Allah sort the mess out. But is WASP countries want to pitch in and contribute sending Muslims to their Promised Land, so much the better. I’ll look forward to the 21^st Century version of the Crusades! 

Natural Disasters: Religious types say this is God’s wrath and way of punishing wicked humanity. I could care less about the religious overtones, as long as nature keeps culling the human species. Humans should be encouraged, even given financial assistance to migrate to disaster prone areas, IMHO.

Obesity: Anything that shortens the natural lifespan or life expectancy of the human being has got to be a good thing (and it keeps the medical profession gainfully employed). So please keep on stuffing your faces, blubber-girls and remove yourselves from the gene pool sooner rather than later. And yes, it’s primarily the female of the species who over indulges and thus over bulges. 

Save the Children: Why? So they can grow up and breed like rabbits and produce hordes more brats that will need saving! It should read “Save the world from children”.

Suicide: This is a private and personal matter that is no one else’s business. If one has a right-to-life, then one has a right-to-death. That includes euthanasia as well. It’s better to go out swinging and of your own free will than risking another alternative. Suicide should be encouraged, or at least not be prevented. Again, this is a victimless ‘crime’.  

Traffic Accidents and Road Deaths: This should be encouraged, especially for carloads of drunken hoons. As a runner-up, drivers who engage in cell phone usage on the road, well they too deserve to meet their maker.

Kindly note by the way that I’m not discriminating against any particular human nationality; any particular human race or ethnic group; any particular human religion; or any particular human anything. All humans are grist for my mill. The only good human is a deceased human and one that kicks-the-bucket before his or her use by date.

However, I do have to admit that every once in a while, I read some story of some type of incredible bond between a human and his or her companion animal – dog usually, but also cats, horses, etc. Sometimes there will be some sort of heart-warming human interest story of a human putting the wellbeing and life of an animal ahead of his or her own. At times like those, I reflect that there just might be some hope for the human species after all. However, on balance…

But then I remember how the Japanese slaughter their dolphins and all those great whales that have been and are being harpooned. Then I remember how the Canadians bludgeon those baby harp seals to death. Then I remember the slaughter to extinction of the passenger pigeon and the dodo and other species way to numerous to mention. Then I remember too total overfishing and trawling the ocean floor killing unwanted species by the thousands. And then I remember all those so-called ‘sportsman’ hunters with guns blazing away 24/7 to the point I’m surprised there’s a wild animal still left alive anywhere in the world, though ‘sportsman’ hunters are happily rectifying that situation even as I write this. Then I remember that not all hunting is for fun and profit, and how the ACT government    revels in culling thousands of kangaroos annually because kangaroos get in the way of voters – or at least voters who own cars and hit the animals on the road when they get in the way. Then too I remember how many millions of lab animals have been tortured in the name of ‘beauty’ by having potential cosmetics tested on them first, often by rubbing the product into their eyes. Then too I remember the horrendous treatment meted out to Australian livestock in Indonesia, Pakistan and Egypt, treatment that was so inhumane as to boggle the mind of the cruelties humans are capable of. There’s something especially barbaric above and beyond the norm about how Muslims treat animals.

It’s rare therefore to get by even one day without reading, viewing or hearing about yet another atrocity committed against non-human species, and I’m not talking about issues related to food or survival here (nature’s predator-prey relationship includes humans), but cruelty, torture, and slaughter just for the sake of cruelty, torture and slaughter.

I can take some consolation in that in the decades and centuries ahead, because humans have so totally screwed or stuffed things up, life is just going to get more and more nasty and miserable for the human species. In fact it’s already happening in that for the first time in recent history the average life expectancy of the human being is and will continue to decrease.



God’s Population and Environmental Policy: Genesis 1: 28

One part of the Bible that people like and take seriously is that God commands people to have sex – with the opposite sex of course, even if only for the purpose of producing more people who will grow up and eventually have sex, etc. Humans tend to be very good at this, regardless of race, IQ, occupation, status, income, overall health or even disabilities. Unfortunately, the consequences have been less than a utopian paradise or heavenly.

Most would agree that humans have had less than a perfect record when it comes to observing and keeping the Ten Commandments. But there is one other commandment that predates the Big Ten that humans have taken to heart and have had no trouble at all obeying. But instead of leading to positive results, this commandment has led humanity into turning our home, Planet Earth, into a cesspool of filth and suffering even death on a massive scale, not just for us but also for the innocents that had no say in the matter as well. The root cause is God’s population and environmental policies.

Though God’s population and environmental policy isn’t confined to just this one Biblical chapter and verse, that specific chapter and verse, Genesis 1: 28, is probably the most destructive statement in all of recorded history. Genesis 1: 28 is God’s population and environmental policy for mankind. It basically amounts to breed, like, well like rabbits! Further, there’s a subclause that suggests we speak loudly and carry a big stick and let Mother Nature know in no uncertain terms who is King of the Mountain. 

God's policy on population growth is flawed. God's not a Greenie or an environmentalist! We all know the passage from Genesis 1: 28 (King James Version) - It goes something like this: "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

In fact, it doesn’t seem to matter if you’re starving, are poverty stricken, have little if any access to basic amenities, the need to obey Genesis 1: 28 is so strong that little else matters. We’ve all seen horrendous images of the greatest of the great unwashed living in filth and poverty with children not much more than living skeletons, and dying like flies. Fast forward a generation and it is déjà vu all over again, only it’s now twice the number of the greatest of the great unwashed. Despite living in the most appalling of conditions, you can count on the universal – sex. And of course the poorer you are the more you will take dominion over resources in order to survive. A poverty-stricken man would gladly kill the last surviving member of an entire animal species if it brings in enough money to get him and his family through another single day.      

It’s normally Mother Nature’s way to keep population growth under checks and balances, except, thanks to God, humans prove the disastrous exception to the rule. When human populations suffer to the extent that death on a massive scale starts to transpire, other humans provide assistance to get them over the hump. Thus, the next time disaster strikes and people start dying off, you have a situation where they are even more in need of assistance since those who would have died the previous time lived instead to breed more - the next generation, now under the gun. Human compassion, or morality or ethics – presumably also a gift from God – always lauded, ultimately can lead to even greater need for compassion. It’s a vicious cycle.

Of course when it comes to non-human species, humans are not quite so compassionate, moral or ethical. It’s that “subdue” and “dominion” bit. Humans don’t wait for Mother Nature to take charge, rather assume responsibility themselves, as a logical extrapolation of Genesis 1: 28.  Here in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), the ACT government authorises yearly the culling (i.e. – shoot to kill) of multi-thousands of kangaroos because these animals allegedly have a detrimental effect on the native environment of the ACT (i.e. – they get in the way of humans). Never mind the fact that the animal is a native (not an invasive species) to the area and their presence predates human settlement by millions of years. Also, never mind that humans outnumber kangaroos by thousands to one. Even locally, humans vastly outnumber the kangaroo. Guess which of the two species has the higher impact on the natural environment. The example of the kangaroo can be retold in other contexts thousands of times over – the American buffalo for example. That's quite apart from humans killing animals for 'sport'; not for food or clothing, but just for a hell of it; because it makes the brave hunters feel big – king of the mountain in fact. Genesis 1: 28 strikes again, and again and again.  

Now Genesis 1: 28 is ultimately a Biblical impossibility because it is unsustainable, as should already be bleeding obvious to blind Freddy, and should have been obvious to God Himself. But God is selfish. God wants worshipers and the more the better. God may well want more and more and more humans to bow and scrape to Him, but at what ultimate cost to the Earth He allegedly created; all those plants and animals He allegedly created; and His ultimate alleged creation, humanity?

Apart from mice and rats (which have a low ecological footprint), there's probably no wild mammalian species still in existence that outnumbers us anymore. There's something seriously wrong when there's threatened and endangered species, some  that now only total 500 to maybe (if lucky) 5000 individuals left, when humans are seven billion strong and ever accelerating in numbers, especially in Africa. What hope is there for God's animal creations? We've living in an era of mass extinction right now, and we're the cause. What lifestyle for humans when there's no more fit air to breathe; no fit water to drink; all natural resources depleted; disease and hunger rampant.

God may enjoy all those billions of humans here and now with billions more to come worshiping and praying to Him, but those "fish of the sea" are a fraction of what once was; ditto the "fowl of the air" and ditto, ditto "every living thing" - well, maybe not cockroaches, not yet at least (until they become a human food source of last resort and you'd eat them if it were down to a choice of that or starvation - besides they're rich in protein). The Book of Revelation maybe impossible nonsense, though the ‘End of Days’ (for humans) might not be, thanks to Genesis 1:28. It would be rather ironic if God just barely spared mankind via Noah’s Ark, only to have mankind go kaput because of that other extract from Genesis.

Of all of God’s crimes against humanity, which have been numerous (like the Genesis Flood), this apparently innocent statement contained in Genesis 1: 28 in the long term will be the one with the most implications, and ultimately the worst one of all, and God made it, and an all-knowing God should have known better. Of course that’s if you place any credibility in Biblical quotations. But that’s another topic.