"The Merchant of Avarice"

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Start Putting Human Sub-Species On The Endangered Species List? 

That May Be Our Most Viable Option At This Point!

Some candidates. The Middle Class? India's Girl-Child class? Women everywhere? Not to mention non-billionaire voters. Et tu college students?

Seriously. Getting EPA protection, stateside or in Europe, may be the quickest way to get protection legislated soon enough to matter. That means soon enough to prevent ourselves from lopping off too many parts that "WE" can't survive without. Even German voters care more about saving bumblebees than about saving the citizens throughout southern Europe, although they admit both acts are for the same, aggregate purpose. Huh?? Regardless. Show me another way to get the entire 28-nation block to make remedial adjustments that quickly!

You couldn't make this level of stupidity up.

In a cut-throat race to hoard "fiat" - and defer it's use to supposedly more important times - we may literally end up cutting one too many of the key cultural arteries that supply infrastructure supporting each of the competitive lobbies wielding an economic knife. If Shakespeare were still around, he'd have to re-write some themes, including coming up with "The Merchant of Avarice" - about an idiot intent on repeatedly cutting off a pound of his OWN flesh, to reduce expenses and thereby pay off old debts to himself. Doh!

Yet is that the ONLY way to stem the growing stupidity? 

Wouldn't establishing some simple tolerance limits on EVERY process be far simpler than clumsy, self-assisted suicide? 

We've already made mico/macro self-assisted suicide illegal, but like other declared wars, our avowed efforts expand the exact entity we purport to squash, thereby calling into question the very axioms we're using to shape our efforts.

Perhaps a bit more balanced thinking would do wonders?

To try that out, do we have to put quality of distributed decision-making on the endangered species list too?