Glenn Reynolds asks if given the increasing capability to engineer new life does the environmentalist movement need to be held to account for its 'eliminationist' rhetoric? After all conceptually it's a short step from calling human beings a disease to trying to design a 'cure'. Key point:
How common are these views? I typed “Humanity is a” into Google and the top three suggestions were “Humanity is a virus,” “Humanity is a disease,” and “Humanity is a cancer.”
With such views spreading, and with technology making it steadily easier for individual or small groups to try creating their own viruses or diseases to, in their mind, level the score, perhaps we need to hold the environmental movement responsible for its frequent use of eliminationist rhetoric
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A lot of the left's rhetoric is incredibly hostile to normal human beings but the eliminationist environmentalists are by far the most frightening.
As Glenn would say, read the whole thing.
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