What is the ideal human population?

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

In a recent essay, Oxford Professor Roger Crisp toys with the idea that human extinction might not be a bad thing.

There's so much suffering on Earth, he argues, that if NASA locates a massive asteroid hurtling towards our planet,

we'd be justified in just letting it obliterate us.

I'm not claiming that extinction would be good and clarifies crisp,

only that, since it might be, we should devote more time and attention to thinking about the value of extinction than we have to date.

Look, this is an Oxford philosopher of ethics, but he's wrestling with an idea that long ago left the ivory tower.

Wesley Smith, of the Discovery Discovery Institute put it this wet,

with our supposedly best mind suggesting that human extinction could be desirable,

is in any wonder so many of our young people seem to be in despair?

When God's taken out of the moral picture, reason evaporates,

as does the rest of our moral logic.

Someone tell Bruce Willis and the rest of his Armageddon team

that his mission is off.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.