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04/20/11(Wed)23:10 No.25290322>>25290075
Funny enough, Newton was an amateur alchemist, and died mostly due to mercury poisoning. So by then he was going more than a little crazy.
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So you say, but you yourself are profiting from that paving of earth and poisoning of air with the home you live in, the computer you're typing on, the food you eat, the job you work at, and the very time you spend on the planet.
Without academia and its practice, you probably wouldn't have made it through childbirth, and your mother might not have either. If you had, you may have been killed by some disease.
At this point, our species is inseparable from the need of academia and technology. Sure, we're running out of room, but even if we went full stop, it would take years for nature to recover, centuries in some spots, and what would we do about transportation in the meantime? Until we developed cars, people only traveled about a thousand or so miles in their lifetime. Their whole life. Now you can cross the goddamn planet in a day. And I won't be the last to admit that there were things we probably shouldn't have done to further some areas of study, but do you want to invalidate the lives of the creatures and people who were used in those experiments?
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