8 favourite replies to the ‘theocratic fascist’ who said he’d kill every ape to save one human
Well here’s a debate we didn’t expect to be having today. This tweet by ‘theocratic fascist’ Matt Walsh, who likes to spend his time ”locking the Left’s Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender’ went viral all over again because, well, let’s have a look at what he had to say.
I would kill every ape in the world to save one human, because humans are more important. This is a very simple concept, folks.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 29, 2016
A simple concept, maybe, but imagine how difficult it would be to do in practice? Anyway, it prompted lots of interesting and very funny replies, of which these are our favourites.
Are you aware that humans are apes?
— Chad ”MPREGMAFIA” Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) 4 June 2019
Please provide more details about your ape-killing fantasies. Would you wrestle them? Use a weapon?
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) 31 May 2016
I would kill you in exchange to save one ape, because too much stupidity is something we are fed up by. @MattWalshBlog
— zihinselorgazm (@zihinselorgazm) 30 May 2016
i would kill no more than one hundred apes
— law dog, esq. (@ggooooddddoogg) 5 June 2019
Even a nasty human? One who we’ve agreed is very bad?
— rob manuel (@robmanuel) 31 May 2016
And it didn’t stop there.
Everyone is laughing at this but it’s interesting! It implies either a) apes (all animals?) have zero moral value; b) humans have infinite moral value; c) both have moral value but are incommensurable; or d) apes have such low moral value that all of them added together < 1 human https://t.co/E0XL6QJ2ze
— Tom Chivers (@TomChivers) June 4, 2019
How many apes would you kill to save one human? It's actually a hard question!
— Ian Leslie (@mrianleslie) 4 June 2019
I would kill three apes to save a close friend or family member with at least thirty Qualys ahead of them. I might shoot an ape caught in the act of murdering a neighbour or much loved celebrity. Other than that I wouldn't get involved.
— simon evans (@TheSimonEvans) 4 June 2019
This brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.
— Jay (@SuperJrawks) June 5, 2019
But Matt Walsh wasn’t impressed people were talking about it all over again.
You really dug back three years to rip a tweet out of context and respond to it? Okay then https://t.co/EAEAQEXCUd
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 4, 2019
What is the context to this?
— Anthony Leonardi (@TonyDLeonardi) 4 June 2019
When people were angry that an ape was killed to save a child
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) 4 June 2019
Which you can read all about here. Full context and all that.
To conclude …
Matt Walsh appears to not be interested in the marketplace of ideas. pic.twitter.com/NSbxyDTPOA
— cognitive insistence (@CInsistence) June 4, 2019
