From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: New Insect Spirit!
Date:	Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:02:42 +0200

> Re: Ice age prevention
>
> Uh-huh. And no doubt we've prevented lots of icky new creatures from
> evolving by causing their ancestors to go extinct, and gotten rid of
> some nasty potential diseases by eliminating tons of rainforest, and...
> Well, I could go on. Ice ages happen. They've been happening for
> a long time. But I don't recall any other incidence of a single species
> managing the wholesale carnage we've acomplished.

I remember reading in the National Geographic about the comet theory
about the extinction of the dinosaurs, you know the one about a comet hiting
the earth and causing so much havoc with the food chain that the great
big dinos had suddenly nothing to eat. Well anyway I remember reading that
it has been estimated that this comet wiped out about 90% of all the
plant/wildlife species on earth!!! Hows that for destruction? And nature
still managed to bounce back and give us the variety we enjoy today...
I dont mean to say that its ok to make whole species extinct just because
more will evolve, what I wanted to say is that shit happens thats the
way nature works - I feel sorry for the dodo bird, but I sure wont
loose any sleep over it.

> I personally don't think
> that the possibility of preventing and Ice Age justifies us.
> And to tie this into Shadowrun, I think the VITAS plague is
> FASA's way of justifying that their game universe can still exist
> and be playable that far in the future. Cutting out a sizeable portion
> of the population is a good start, anyway. I approve of the game concept.

But who said anything about justifying us? We dont need to justify
anything ...

> By the way, apologies to all the nice people who have, I am told, been
> replying to me regarding Insect Spirits on the list; I haven't been
> reading the list for several days, actually, so I missed it. Sorry.

Does that mean I have to re-post all those flames ? :)

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