did anyone ever stop and think that we're the real virus?
I'm sure plenty of people have thought this! One that sticks in my mind is the vegan edgelord - or rather, edgelady - who wrote a piece that was published in VICE a few years ago, justifying her dietary choices by pretty much paraphrasing Agent Smith's "Humans are a disease" speech from
The Matrix.
Now there are those who insist that population growth is a good thing
per se, that it can and should continue indefinitely, and that anyone who disagrees is some monstrous "Malthusian fascist" and probably also a eugenicist. I think that's demonstrably absurd, but when people go so far the other way as to look favourably upon extinction - well, that's kind of fucked up in itself, but it's also worth bearing in mind that "humans are a disease" is only a cunt-hair away from "
some humans are a disease", and we all know where that leads.
