We, humans, have a brain that allows us to make tools, solve math equations,build, read, cook, drive, type, and all those other things we humans do.We are capable of leveling mass amounts of forest land, digging quaries to extract precious recourses to make our lives more comfortable in our suv's and leather sofas.We are so many and consume everything we come across that we have given ourselves the most dominant spot in the food chain.We inslave other species to suit our needs and kill off species so we may have unique decor in living room.
Is it mans capabilities that make it mans place to do such things?
My view , I am sure will not be a shared view but thats ok.Let me first say I am NOT anti hunting.Many people hunt to supplement for a lack of income and feed their families and even to help feed neighboring families struggeling to put food on the table but trophy hunting is wrong in my opinion.But, hunting isnt the real issue here.
The real issue is wether it is our right to exert our control over another species.Which is a tough one.On one hand now that we have destroyed so much of other species natural habitat we do have a responsablity to clean up our mess and try and provide yet live in some kind of harmony with those species.So in this respect we must actually act as a controller of sorts.Yet we do not control our own species.Why is it inhumane to set poplulation control within humans? Yet not inhumane to set population controls in place for other species.Do we have more of a right to live then them? Do we have more of a right to procreate a species that is already over populated? Not in my opinion.
BUT, let leave all of this behind.I feel I may be taking my own topic off topic
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Compare only our physical beings.leave your tools behind and keep only your wits.Without our tools are we really the dominant species.I would say no.Without our tools would we even be carnivores? You may say , oh well some animals do actually use tools and you would be right.So ,ok, lets give ourselves the tools that we see other animals using but only those.With those tools you may say, well we can now make fire since we have our wits.Ok, so now we have fire.Whats that leave us with? You may say well with those tools and our wits we can create more.You would be right but for this you will do without.
Rocks, wood and fire.Those are the tools we use to calculate our dominancy.So it looks like we're back to being cavemen.Are we still superior? Can we still claim dominancy over other species. Physically no, mentally yes. After all 'we make fire'.
Is it that ability to make fire that makes it mans place to dominate,destroy and consume what ever we may choose? No, it is THAT ability that makes it our responsablity to ensure we create balance with nature.
The hunting of certain species and even the reintroduction of species within a habitat are only viewed as needed because we (humans) have taken more than we could ever give back.To me this does not calculate to our having an entitled dominion over other species.In fact it places us within the prey and not the predators.
Why prey and not predator? Prey tend to lack the physical attributes to protect themselves from the predator.Prey tend to run because they can not stand and fight.We are prey because without our tools we can not protect ourselves, we can not stand and fight.We are prey because we are to ignorant to see the predator coming.
Things like this get me fired up.Just because we have the ability to dominate does not make it our place to do so.The attitide that because we are able gives us a right to consume and enslave will not only be our downfall, unfortunately we will take the world and many of its species with us.
Yes now we are finding ways to live "cleaner" lives and planting forests that we had previously demolished,breeding animals that we have hunted to close to extinction.Some of the damage can not be undone and we will spend the rest of our existance looking back at the devistation and shaking our heads.To me the human race needs a moral makeover.Thats my opinion and a bit a rant you could say.
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I'm not looking for anyone to agree with me, its just that people who think they have a natural right of dominance need to be slapped around and thrown into the forest with just a rock and some wood.See how dominant they are then, in their birthday suit with a rock in one hand and a stick in the other.
At FoxKnights request I went looking for article again.I use the word "article" in reference to its length.He has also brought to my attention that he feels I may have misinterpreted the statement.So let me clarify that the words" mans place to have dominion", to me, reference a feeling of right or entitlement to something.Which I feel is not the case as stated above.
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