Doom! (Warning: May Contain Vegetables)

We are disappointed with the attitudes that continue to pervade society and suggest that it is okay to harm some innocents in order to be sure that you punish the guilty. Case in point, this article, which describes a device that hospitals could use to destroy "superbugs". We would like to ask the authors of this article whether they thought about all the innocent bacteria, fungi, and viruses that would be sacrificed just to get these few evil "superbugs"? At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not perplexed by this preposterous attitude, and we think it shows society's bias against microbes. To wit, only a fool would think an herbicide that kills all weeds and all crops would be a good idea. What good would it be to eliminate weeds if we also eliminate Brussels sprouts? Why should we, then, find it acceptable to kill all bacteria, fungi, and viruses when some of them are no more harmful to us than Brussels sprouts?

We ask all of our supporters to take a step back and evaluate their own attitudes toward microbes. Only by honestly examining our own attitudes can we hope to exert an influence on others!