"C'mon Bina! I'm being serious!"
Say a bear eats your family. Is the bear to blame? Not really, it is just doing as a bear does, whether or not it knows what it's doing, it killed your family and must be stopped, even though it is just being a bear. It is doing what come naturally, but that is hurting others, so the bear needs to be stopped.
The Bot Fly is doing a hell of a lot more than eating people. The Bot Fly needs to be stopped.
"So am I," says Bina. "Would you let a tiger eat you?"
"What?"
"You and a tiger are trapped in a box. Do you let it eat you?"
"Come on," says Amie. "That's not fair."
"Yes it is. Tiger's are beautiful and they're smart, and they're endangered. Maybe, if you had time and safety, the two of you could come to some kind of understanding. Maybe you could teach it that humans aren't food. You might even be friends. But for now, it's just you, and the tiger, in the box. The tiger doesn't know better, maybe it doesn't understand that you're a thinking, feeling person, but it does know that it's hungry, and that you're made of meat."
"So, do you let it eat you?"
Say a bear eats your family. Is the bear to blame? Not really, it is just doing as a bear does, whether or not it knows what it's doing, it killed your family and must be stopped, even though it is just being a bear. It is doing what come naturally, but that is hurting others, so the bear needs to be stopped.
The Bot Fly is doing a hell of a lot more than eating people. The Bot Fly needs to be stopped.
"So am I," says Bina. "Would you let a tiger eat you?"
"What?"
"You and a tiger are trapped in a box. Do you let it eat you?"
"Come on," says Amie. "That's not fair."
"Yes it is. Tiger's are beautiful and they're smart, and they're endangered. Maybe, if you had time and safety, the two of you could come to some kind of understanding. Maybe you could teach it that humans aren't food. You might even be friends. But for now, it's just you, and the tiger, in the box. The tiger doesn't know better, maybe it doesn't understand that you're a thinking, feeling person, but it does know that it's hungry, and that you're made of meat."
"So, do you let it eat you?"