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The document summarizes a blog post about the "best blog comment of all time". The comment suggests that killing off all dangerous wildlife in Africa would help the poor by freeing up resources for domesticated herds. It argues that lions, hyenas, and other wildlife limit the ability of subsistence farmers to innovate and invest. The comment is presented as a serious proposal, though the author acknowledges it may be ill-informed. Responses in the comments call the proposal "A Modest Proposal" and question the sanity and intentions of the original comment.

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894 Thoughts On "Best Blog Comment of All Time?"

The document summarizes a blog post about the "best blog comment of all time". The comment suggests that killing off all dangerous wildlife in Africa would help the poor by freeing up resources for domesticated herds. It argues that lions, hyenas, and other wildlife limit the ability of subsistence farmers to innovate and invest. The comment is presented as a serious proposal, though the author acknowledges it may be ill-informed. Responses in the comments call the proposal "A Modest Proposal" and question the sanity and intentions of the original comment.

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Best blog comment of all time?

29MAY2010
Elizabeth Pisani gives us her favorite blog comment. I had to think hard about mine, but it is
probably this one:
I may be crazy but, the idea has been nagging me for some time that perhaps the biggest favor
we could do for the African poor would be to kill off all that dangerous wild life. The presence of
lions, hyenas, hippos, wildebeests, zebras (which injure more zoo personnel than any other
animal — why they cannot be domesticated) must crowd out enormous amounts of resources as
well as making life just too dangerous. How free can poor subsistence farmers feel to innovate
or invest when their every movement is hemmed in by an open zoo?
I would knock off every crocodile on earth too. They are a danger to children everywhere they
live (Australia). I personally would be willing to see every alligator go too (two legs good; four
legs bad me) but alligators to my understanding are smaller and tend to eat (once a month?)
smaller prey (birds, your family dog but probably not you).
Think of how profitably domesticated herds could use the same vast natural resources used by
useless to poor people wild herds and their natural predators. I am perfectly serious about this
even if crazy or badly ill informed or both.
PS. In a hundred years you will give your kid a DNA set for Christmas and she can make a
Tyrannosaurs whatever. In two hundred they only place you may find homo sapiens could be the
zoo. So don’t worry too much about “irreplaceable” species.
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894 thoughts on “Best blog comment of all time?”

1. Michael Clemens on May 29, 2010 at 10:00 am said:

Submitted by Larry Summers, right?

2. Robi Bierstadt on May 29, 2010 at 10:51 am said:


A Modest Proposal.

3. Pia on May 29, 2010 at 6:07 pm said:

beautiful.

4. Sarah K on May 29, 2010 at 10:37 pm said:

Wow

5. Quent on June 7, 2010 at 6:50 pm said:

You’re correct, you are crazy.

6. Will Way on June 11, 2010 at 8:41 am said:

Why don’t you promote birth control and population reduction for Africa instead of
getting wound up about zebras?

7.

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