[ SECRET POST #2217 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2217 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Early because sick, sorry.

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Comments

[thezmage]

Eating people is okay? Really?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends who you're eating. Pretty sure people like Mason Verger have it coming.

[(Anonymous)]

There are people who would argue that eating animals is wrong, so...

[insanenoodlyguy]

Those people don't have opinions that matter.

The simple fact of the world is the human is superior to all other known fauna on this planet.

Thus the life of a human is greater then the life of an animal.

And our teeth and digestive system say it's right.

[(Anonymous)]

Superior in what way? Destroying the planet and driving other species to extinction?

[insanenoodlyguy]

Well would we get away with that if there were any that could challenge us? Of course not!

[ariakas]

Untrue, bro. Microorganisms still slaughter us in droves. They were here billions of years before we ever existed, and they'll be here long after we're gone. We won a temporary - and not entirely effective - reprieve through antibiotics, but they've evolved faster than would ever be possible for us, faster than our technologies and new drugs can keep up. They'll be the death of billions of us in answer to the hubris that we thought we could ever defeat them.

[insanenoodlyguy]

stuff and nonsense! This will just give rise to a superior immune system. We have micororganisms in us for this kinda shit. Even if billions die, there will be millions if not billions to rebuild, the disease before them no longer any more threat then the cold.

[ariakas]

But microorganism evolve much faster than our immune systems. This inconvenient fact means that, in theory, any new disease could wipe out the entire human race. There's no guarantee that any of us have that particular immunity in any of our repertoires.

Of course, that would be to the detriment of pathogens, who use our bodies against our will to breed. Whose the master in this relationship, really?

[insanenoodlyguy]

You talk of hypotheticals. This hasn't happened yet. And I doubt it ever will.

[ariakas]

Why do you doubt? It only needs to happen once kekekekekekeke

/microbiologist lurves them bugs

[inkmage]

If you're speaking of a disease wiping out a large swathe of the human race....

The Spanish Flu killed 20-50 million people.

The Black Plague killed 75-200 million people.

Tuberculosis kills about 50% of infected people if untreated, and the infection rate is about one per second. It's still around, and unfortunately we've made it highly resistant to a lot of antibiotics.

During the 20th century, smallpox killed about 300-500 million people. It was one of the most important factors in the devastation of the New World population, both North and South America, around the colonial era.

So there's precedent. Especially with smallpox, with the whole destroy-a-population thing.

:) Wash your hands!

[insanenoodlyguy]

And all those diseases now?

nothing to worry about.

they had a good run, but we won.

[inkmage]

The Spanish Flu is being studied for its similarities to the Avian Flu/H5N1 Flu, which is currently running around killing people - the only reason it isn't a major problem is because the virus currently lacks the necessary mutation to jump from person to person, instead of just bird to person (though it wouldn't take much to change that). The reason both are so much of a problem is that both viruses infect the lower, more fragile portions of the lungs, making them much less easily dealt with and much deadlier.

Tuberculosis is making a comeback because of badly-implemented antibiotic regimens that created, in effect, "super-bugs".

There's no cure for AIDS and that's considered a pandemic, and as of 2009 it had killed around 30 million people, if you're looking for a current disease.

But your original objection was about a precedent for mass death via disease, so that's what I gave you.

[insanenoodlyguy]

No my argument is that Humans remain the superior species.

Doesn't mean we are invincible, but no microorganism or anything else has been able to supplant us yet. And I have more optimism then some about our chances.

[greenvelvetcake]

Oh, you're one of those.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, not one of those

[(Anonymous)]

So would it be alright to eat babies since they're inferior to us?

ITT: BABY EATER

[(Anonymous)]