Sunday, July 15, 2007
Damn Mosquito
I want to kill this pesky little mosquito that's floating in this room right now. Why do I want to kill it though? Is it because I think I am better as a human being than the mosquito as an insect? Sure, mosquitos do harm to human beings, and I guess it's human nature to kill things that do harm to us? Ok, so here's my logic: If, say, nature decided, "I've had enough, these human beings are doing way too much harm to me. I'm going to kill them too," and mosquitos started growing in population at an increasingly alarming rate, so alarming that our homes, offices, schools, and hospitals are engulfed in a jungle of insects; so alarming that we are up to our ears in mosquitos, and we all suffocate beneath it all, then what? Humans are no more, and nature has predominated. But this won't happen. Nope. We take the earth for granted, and we think ourselves superior to everything non-human. However, every species on earth will have to be extinct at some point. I wonder what extinction of the human race would entail. Will HIV kill us all? Small microbes? Ebola? Whatever it is, I really would like to find out. Why do I want to find out? Because that's science: my interest, my passion.
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