Team turtle

On a beach, one million years ago, ten thousand baby turtles all hatched at once. They were almost all violently massacred, and no one at the time cared. 

I care! And not just because baby turtles are adorable. You care too, at least a little. That's pretty weird. 

Some flavor of love has probably existed for like. . . half a billion years? That's just a guess. But this strange little spark is much more recent. 

People sometimes talk about humanity as if we'll soon face some great cosmic judgment. God will look upon our crimes and decide if we deserve to inherit the universe. Are we the baddies?

It's really hard to watch my friends laugh and eat corpses, and still get excited about team humanity. I wish I could blame someone, but the truth is worse. 

We are the fire keepers. If not us, who? 

I think it would be naive to throw it all away in a desperate roll of the dice. 

Does that make me a conservative?