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December 20, 2005
Moonbats Visualize Humanity's Demise
You have to hand it to the folks at VHEMT (pronounced vehement). Liberals in general just don't seem to think things through. But the VHEMT people have thought their ideology through to the very end. They have also taken the self-hatred that drives leftist thinking to its natural conclusion. Why settle for hating your own country or your own ethnic group when you can hate your own species?
VHEMT stands for Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Their goal: the eradication of the human race.
Fortunately, in contrast to some of the gory fantasies on display at Democratic Underground, VHEMT's approach is nonviolent. All you need to do to become a member — a "VHEMT Volunteer" — is live by this creed:
All of us should voluntarily refrain from reproducing further, bringing about the eventual extinction of Homo sapiens.
From their website:
We don't carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.
Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of the Earth's ecology.
As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens... us.
Each time another one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom.
Nice of them to avoid negativity. Lest you dismiss these people as twisted lunatics, I should point out that the literary giant and esteemed intellectual Kurt Vonnegut has expressed very similar views:
We are killing the planet as a life support system. We may have gone so far already that there's no recovery from it. The game may be over. ... I think the earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us. And it's high time they did. We are a disease on the face of this planet ... it's time we got out of here. We are a disease on the planet, and I think we ought to become syphilis with a conscience and stop reproducing.
But if you want to dismiss Vonnegut as a twisted lunatic too, be my guest.
It would be nice to think that this movement could result in the voluntary extinction not of humans, but of moonbats. However, moonbattery seems to be a matter of choice, rather than genetics.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 20, 2005 12:26 PM
Comments
God Almightly! I've always wondered from from what source such morons can claim they came from. And no, I don't think its Marxism.
Posted by: ex-expat at December 20, 2005 12:57 PM
When I'm married, I plan on having a whole litter of kids.
I think I'll dedicate them to these freaks.
Posted by: Hal at December 20, 2005 1:15 PM
This is what one of the "founders" of this movement thinks of procreation...whew!
http://www.ninapaley.com/NinasAdventures/NewAdv11.htm
Posted by: ex-expat at December 20, 2005 2:27 PM
Is anybody else, when they read these sorts of things, struck by a terrible absence of spirit? I don't mean spirit in any religious sense, but rather basic inner human spirit.
It's like the criminals whose brain MRIs show lack of brain tissue in the area which houses conscience. There's literally something missing.
And something missing in the lefties; something is terribly wrong, and terribly gone.
Posted by: Laura at December 20, 2005 2:42 PM
lack of sprit yes, but I would also observe a very narrow field of vision, not extending very much beyond their vacuous (in this case the creators of the VHEMT movement) self-absorbed world.
Hope they never see themselves for what they are...it'd probably destroy them.
Posted by: ex-expat at December 20, 2005 3:40 PM
I've got the perfect solution for ALL of them.
Become a HOMO.
Better yet, why don't all LEFTISTS and DEMOCRATS become homosexuals.
Their conscience can then rest easy. And in a generation or two, this country can finally get on with its business without wasting time over hand wringers and self haters.
Posted by: Doug at December 20, 2005 4:15 PM
Stupid 'tards. All they're doing is eliminating themselves from the gene pool.
Nothing to get upset about.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at December 20, 2005 5:35 PM
OMG! I heard about these loons a bit ago. I thought it was satire at first, but eventually had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I figured out they were serious.
Talk about self-loathing moonbats to the extreme.
Geez.
Posted by: moonbat monitor at December 20, 2005 7:13 PM
At least they'll be non-procreating themselves out of existence. There is some logic to their madness!
Posted by: Pam at December 20, 2005 9:09 PM
As with any such fanatics, Cato, the problem comes when they decide that their own chosen method isn't achieving the desired result, and that more drastic measures are required...particularly with regards to those who do not share their enlightened point of view.
I've always suspected that VHMT is merely an elaborate joke. But if not, and they do take their mission seriously, who is to say they couldn't create/release some sort of pathogen to hasten along human extinction, once they realize the "voluntary" part isn't getting them anywhere?
Posted by: prince of leaves at December 20, 2005 11:59 PM
When I lived in Oregon, it was common among the yewts to say, "more trees, less people." They stopped saying it around me when I said, "Then, plant a tree and kill yourself. And it's 'fewer,' not 'less,' brainiac."
Posted by: V the K at December 21, 2005 5:30 AM
In the end, unless humans develop the capability to move the living systems of this planet elsewhere, everything on this planet will be roasted by the sun. These idiots acts as if humans weren't here, the universe would be an idyllic paradise that would continue indefinately. Everything changes. The Earth will be better off if these idiots voluntarily become fertilizer.
Posted by: spiny widgmo at December 21, 2005 11:30 AM
