cancer gardening

[Jeff Bone]

One man's flower is another man's weed.  The gardeners get to decide
what stays in the garden.  Over the last several decades, we've
employed a policy which says that everyone is a gardener, and can
make these decisions;  we have treated the garden of our world with
benign neglect, choosing to regard everything that grows in it as a
precious flower.  Unfortunately, many of the plants that have grown
in it have proven dangerous.  If the consequence of continuing this
ideological policy of benign neglect is risk to the health and
survival of the gardeners and the other plants, I say we are
obligated to act pragmatically and in our own self-interest to
unsentimentally identify and eliminate the poisonous weeds.

jb

Dave Long wrote:

> Cancers and weeds are similar,
> in that they grow much faster
> than the desired biomass, and
> hence threaten to disrupt the
> desired growth completely.
>
> Now, rapid growth is often a
> considered a sign of virtue,
> at least on FoRK.  How do we
> distinguish good fast growth
> from cancers and weeds?
>
> -Dave
>
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