Re:Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom
by kiliantics on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:40AM
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This is the way we should be looking at the situation. We should provide "welfare" for all living species whether or not we believe they meet some threshold of privilege within a moral framework. I would argue that the same point could be made for why we should provide all humans welfare but somehow even that is a radical proposition in our conservative moralising society.
Not necessarily provide for them, but the opposite extreme (not caring if they exist) isn't all that much better and hubris born out of the notion that humans are so exceptional and at the center of everything.
Because this ignores the fact that our habitat (Earth) doesn't just revolve around our existence, our existence is just a part in a vast ecosystem which can only work because life exists in all kinds of shapes and forms.
Nature isn't optional, it's what allowed us to get where we are today, the more we forget this the more likely we are to make mistakes which can't be reversed and will ultimately lead to the destruction of our one and only habitat.