Humans Are Evil

You know what what makes a good human? No human.

After seeing this week the carcasses of three pets along the Interstate — run over after wandering away from their inattentive owners on the nearby rest stops, or perhaps even thrown out of cars by their cruel owners — the Slate article on banning cats (Laura Helmuth, Cats Are Evil, Slate, 23 January 2013) is pure bull. Cats are not evil; human beings are evil. The human race is the true invasive species, who destroys or enslaves every species he can. Civilized man murders, enslaves, cheats, and corrupts savage man. Even inanimate nature he turns into dust bowls and slag-heaps. (C.S. Lewis, Religion and Rocketry, The World’s Last Night and Other Essays, 1958) Knowing this, to put the blame on cats (or any other animal) for human evil is the mark of blind folly and corruption of soul.

If New Zealand is so concerned about saving its native bird population, then the islands should be evacuated of all human life, including the Maoris. If even one human is left, all other life is in danger, because humans are too evil (and thus too stupid and weak) to do otherwise. But that is not going to happen: Even if the current set of evil creatures should leave, new ones will come, and the threat to native life will begin all over again.

Addendum (30 January 2013)

The cats are evil craze is spreading throughout the popular media, with this crap in the New York Times: That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think. Of course cats are deadly: They are predators, like dogs, bears and owls. Brit leftists and other such nutjobs have been whining about cats for decades, but as they are nutjobs, nobody listens to them. Why are we listening to them now? Leave the cats alone, you dankrag scribblers!

BTW, the magazine, from which the cats are evil story came, is a three-year-old British rag called Nature Communications. It is obviously surfing on the name of the older, more venerable magazine Nature. It does not even appear among the myriad journals and magazines on my university's e-journal database. Besides, what makes anyone think that there are billions of any kind of animal life in North America, apart from insects, protists and one-cell critters?

This may be a hasty generalization, but my verdict is obvious: Nature Communications is a nutjob rag, the science equivalent of a Murdock publication. This is the kind of crap that passes for journalism in the American popular press. It leaves Americans as stupid as ever, and does not do cats any good, either.