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<blockquote data-quote="sabrinathecat" data-source="post: 6115086" data-attributes="member: 89838">I think people are forgetting that in addition to being greedy, warlike, and evil, most of humanity is deeply stupid and short sighted. (I will consider most of the people here the exceptions to the rule. You're welcome.) Why worry about 10 years down the road: If we kill them now, we can take all their stuff! We wipe out species here at an alarming rate for some of the dumbest reasons. The stupidest being: We think ____ part of the animal is an aphrodisiac. No proof, but we think it is. There's an entire breed of tiger that no longer exists because zoo breeding programs cross-bred them out. Yep. To preserve the endangered species, we wiped it out. White tigers get all the attention, but are small. Cross-with this breed, and you get big white tigers. Oh, now there are no more of breed X because no one bothered to breed pure X with pure X. Yeah, we are that dumb. Why worry about tomorrow: all these fish will feed me today, and the extra I can take to market and get $50 for. Of course, by taking them all today, there won't be any for the rest of the month, and that $50 will only last a week. Oh and I'm glutting the market. If I thought to not over-harvest, I could get the same amount of money, have more food for tomorrow, and--ah forget it. Take them all now.I have some other examples, but they are perhaps culturally offensive. (Yeah, that's me backing away from offending someone. Imagine!)And the popularity of arranged and organized superstitions around the world is absolutely nuts, with a heaping helping of crazy on the side.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sabrinathecat, post: 6115086, member: 89838"] I think people are forgetting that in addition to being greedy, warlike, and evil, most of humanity is deeply stupid and short sighted. (I will consider most of the people here the exceptions to the rule. You're welcome.) Why worry about 10 years down the road: If we kill them now, we can take all their stuff! We wipe out species here at an alarming rate for some of the dumbest reasons. The stupidest being: We think ____ part of the animal is an aphrodisiac. No proof, but we think it is. There's an entire breed of tiger that no longer exists because zoo breeding programs cross-bred them out. Yep. To preserve the endangered species, we wiped it out. White tigers get all the attention, but are small. Cross-with this breed, and you get big white tigers. Oh, now there are no more of breed X because no one bothered to breed pure X with pure X. Yeah, we are that dumb. Why worry about tomorrow: all these fish will feed me today, and the extra I can take to market and get $50 for. Of course, by taking them all today, there won't be any for the rest of the month, and that $50 will only last a week. Oh and I'm glutting the market. If I thought to not over-harvest, I could get the same amount of money, have more food for tomorrow, and--ah forget it. Take them all now. I have some other examples, but they are perhaps culturally offensive. (Yeah, that's me backing away from offending someone. Imagine!) And the popularity of arranged and organized superstitions around the world is absolutely nuts, with a heaping helping of crazy on the side. [/QUOTE]

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