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[rlk86]

Today I killed a raccoon with my car. At least I think I did. It hobbled off. I've never killed anything with my car

Comments

[thecomedian]

sorry to hear that

[super_genius]

it isn't okay, but it also isn't not okay. I mean, it's just a raccoon, after all. what are they contributing? plus, I'm pretty sure raccoons have benefited a lot more from human technological progress than detrimented (? or some similar context antonym for benefit). they eat our trash, after all. point is, it's not as though human progress is some process entirely separate from the natural world. everything's "natural". the implications of that progress may be bad, but only from a human perspective. yes, we could be forcing climate change at an unprecedented rate in the planet's history, but it's not inherently "bad". I'm pretty sure that, regardless of what we do, life will go on here on Earth. and if not here, then elsewhere. and even if it doesn't, what's the difference? the line between organic and inorganic, alive and not, is one that's only even noticeable to those on the organic side of it. we need to try and divorce ourselves from the concept that we, or any form of life, is special or preferred. we are simply the natural

[greatgams]

Raccoon-killer!
I think the only way to make up for this horrendous act is for you to start The Robert L. Kahne Raccoon Sanctuary.