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I see a flaw in Ohka's logic
by Hemlock3630

Okay, Ohka keeps stating the same thing on various threads. The gist of it "Invasive species are not bad since they compete with native species and evolution will then take place. Even if it's an invasive species from ocean liner bilge water, that's okay too, since it was caused by human activity, and humans are natural (ie part of nature) so anything we do is natural"

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Ohka's logic leads to: Don't vaccinate. Since disease causing bacteria and viruses would be considered 'invasive species' then by your logic, we shouldn't be doing anything against them, since disease and potentially large outbreaks that might kill off whole populations of humans are okay becuase that would allow other species to move in and fill the ecological niches we left behind.

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And using your ocean liner logic, if some nutcase decided to morph HIV with the Flu and Ebola, the scientific community shouldn't try to do anything about it, since it was created by humans, and whatever humans do is natural.....even by creating/introducing invasive species.

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If you're vaccinated, you're a hypocrite, based on the gist of your argument. But of course, you'll probably argue that human life is more important...but then that's assigning 'good' and 'bad' (or 'worth less') to the life of a human vs all the other life forms out there. So why is okay to try to eradicate polio but not kudzu?

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