My earlier post on E. O. Wilson failed to
provoke much except for an awakening of the old "sociobiology is
facism" claim, which has been debated to the point of usually making me
weak in the stomache.
So here's Peter Singer saying, as near as I can tell, the same
thing. Is Singer a sociobiolgist? I don't think so. And, I'm surprised that an
animal liberationist would make these claims. Evolutionary biology is probably
the strongest arguement *against* animal liberation.
Anyway, I'm posting this in the hope that the list can get off
of economics, which is also hurting my stomache.
Our human ecology is that of a rare species of
mammal
in a social, omnivorous niche. Our demography is one of
a
slow-breeding, large, intelligent primate.
To shatter our population
structure, to become abundant
in the way of rodents, not only destroys our
ecological
relations with the rest of nature, it sets the stage
for our
mass
insanity.
Paul Shepard
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/noframes/articles/singernf.htm
