Not long ago there was a rat problem in Paris, where the resurgent rodents found champions on the city council: they -- the rats, not the councillors -- were said to be intelligent creatures capable of love, fear and with the same right to exist as we humans. Now that a bedbug plague is the latest pestilence to sweep the city, I look forward to aldermanic defenders arguing for 'biodiversity'. For deserving humans, however, not a word of sympathy
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