“The King of Beasts” Journal Response
Based on my own knowledge, and the story, I think that man is indeed destined to be, if not already, the deadliest predator. By nature, man is among the weaker creatures on the planet, but intelligence and technological developments have more than made up for that. Mankind stands as the most destructive sentient force on the planet. The human race can be accredited for the extinction of the dodo which was hunted mainly BECAUSE IT WAS CONSIDERED STUPID (it was unaccustomed to humans so it would normally walk towards them out of curiosity before being killed); the meat tasted awful and there were many other species on the island so there was no reason to hunt it for food. Wow. We killed a harmless bird BECAUSE IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT A HUMAN WAS. The American Bison were on the brink of extinction, because large portions of the human race WERE TOO LAZY TO USE, PREPARE AND EAT THE ENTIRE THING, deciding to KILL MORE SO THERE WAS LESS CLEANING AND PREPARING, before ranchers in the southern USA started breeding purebred bison. There was countless other species likely forgotten, that have been DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION BY THE IGNORANCE OF THE HUMAN RACE. And then there’s religion. People that think with their god instead of their BRAIN, making it their life goal to destroy a nation or group of people BECAUSE AN ANCIENT BLOODY BOOK THAT NO ONE ALIVE CAN PROPERLY TRANSLATE SAYS SO. Just because your books say the eagle is a symbol of evil DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD KILL THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS. Sorry, am I shouting too much? This topic, essentially the incompetence of the human race, makes me as sarcastic and angry as Jonathan Yahtzee*. In a matter of minutes, a decision could be passed THAT RESULTS IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT. Thankfully we haven’t reached global thermonuclear war. Yet. It’s only a matter of time before the religious fanatics START BUILDING NUKES, or piss off the USA enough for an ‘accidental’ nuclear launch. Here’s an interesting fact: the USA has 14 submarines EACH ARMED WITH 24 NUCLEAR MISSILES, PATROLLING NEARLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. That’s around HALF of the USA’s nuclear arsenal READY TO LAUNCH AT A MOMENTS NOTICE. And to think they complain when Iran GETS A STICK OF URANIUM. So, onto the other rant!
At this point, the only way for the human race to stop being highly destructive pricks, short of mass suicide, would be to get every weapon on Earth and use an intergalactic cruise missile to send it all flying into the sun. Sadly this isn’t likely because every person with a weapon, or that wants one, is going to start complaining about rights violations. And then there’s the fuel consumption of such a missile. Like that won’t drive gas prices even higher. At this point I don’t think even an ICE AGE could stop us. Alternatively we could just sit down, talk, AND LEARN TO GET ALONG. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is likely to happen either, due to most people’s INTOLLERENCE OF DIFFERENCE. The only real shred of hope is that a contained nuclear war occurs and only the nations obsessed with killing us all actually get nuked. On second thought, THAT WON’T WORK, because the Russians are just itching to exercise their nuclear trigger fingers on the USA. Yea, we’re screwed. If we’re lucky, global warming will kill us first. Hell of a lot better than radiation poisoning.
*http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation Pick one, any one, you’ll see what I mean soon enough.
“The King of Beasts” Journal Response
Based on my own knowledge, and the story, I think that man is indeed destined to be, if not already, the deadliest predator. By nature, man is among the weaker creatures on the planet, but intelligence and technological developments have more than made up for that. Mankind stands as the most destructive sentient force on the planet. The human race can be accredited for the extinction of the dodo which was hunted mainly BECAUSE IT WAS CONSIDERED STUPID (it was unaccustomed to humans so it would normally walk towards them out of curiosity before being killed); the meat tasted awful and there were many other species on the island so there was no reason to hunt it for food. Wow. We killed a harmless bird BECAUSE IT DIDNT KNOW WHAT A HUMAN WAS. The American Bison were on the brink of extinction, because large portions of the human race WERE TOO LAZY TO USE, PREPARE AND EAT THE ENTIRE THING, deciding to KILL MORE SO THERE WAS LESS CLEANING AND PREPARING, before ranchers in the southern USA started breeding purebred bison. There was countless other species likely forgotten, that have been DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION BY THE IGNORANCE OF THE HUMAN RACE. And then there’s religion. People that think with their god instead of their BRAIN, making it their life goal to destroy a nation or group of people BECAUSE AN ANCIENT BLOODY BOOK THAT NO ONE ALIVE CAN PROPERLY TRANSLATE SAYS SO. Just because your books say the eagle is a symbol of evil DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD KILL THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS. Sorry, am I shouting too much? This topic, essentially the incompetence of the human race, makes me as sarcastic and angry as Jonathan Yahtzee*. In a matter of minutes, a decision could be passed THAT RESULTS IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT. Thankfully we haven’t reached global thermonuclear war. Yet. It’s only a matter of time before the religious fanatics START BUILDING NUKES, or piss off the USA enough for an ‘accidental’ nuclear launch. Here’s an interesting fact: the USA has 14 submarines EACH ARMED WITH 24 NUCLEAR MISSILES, PATROLLING NEARLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. That’s around HALF of the USA’s nuclear arsenal READY TO LAUNCH AT A MOMENTS NOTICE. And to think they complain when Iran GETS A STICK OF URANIUM. So, onto the other rant!
At this point, the only way for the human race to stop being highly destructive pricks, short of mass suicide, would be to get every weapon on Earth and use an intergalactic cruise missile to send it all flying into the sun. Sadly this isn’t likely because every person with a weapon, or that wants one, is going to start complaining about rights violations. And then there’s the fuel consumption of such a missile. Like that won’t drive gas prices even higher. At this point I don’t think even an ICE AGE could stop us. Alternatively we could just sit down, talk, AND LEARN TO GET ALONG. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is likely to happen either, due to most people’s INTOLLERENCE OF DIFFERENCE. The only real shred of hope is that a contained nuclear war occurs and only the nations obsessed with killing us all actually get nuked. On second thought, THAT WON’T WORK, because the Russians are just itching to exercise their nuclear trigger fingers on the USA. Yea, we’re screwed. If we’re lucky, global warming will kill us first. Hell of a lot better than radiation poisoning.
*http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation Pick one, any one, you’ll see what I mean soon enough.
