Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 - 11:02 PM
The Dodo
My friend Thom told me today that he read an article in which Richard Dawkins pointed out that dodos aren’t extinct because they were good eating (they were supposedly not at all tasty), but because it was just so darn much fun to bash their heads in.
I find it disturbing that only about a century ago people were so cruel that they deprived future generations of that joy.
Fortunately, we have progressed as a society. If the dodo were alive today, people would farm them.