Friday, January 4, 2013
Man is an ant to man
Man is not a wolf to man.
Man is an ant to man.
When Mr. Blandings builds his dream house he never thinks of the impact on the ant population already using the ground it will be built on.
If you asked him whether he realized building would disrupt the lives of many thousands of ants, likely causing deaths among them also in the thousands, he would look at you with a genuinely puzzled expression, shrug, and say, "Yeah? So?"
It's not that Blandings is a sadist or hates ants or for any reason wishes them harm or actually aims to harm them.
He is not hunting them as a wolf hunts his prey.
They're just not on his radar when he makes his choices.
Nor will he put them there unless actively made to do.
Man is an ant to man.
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