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Originally Posted by
Gnasher
I most certainly do not have a romantic view of wolves - I see nothing romantic in being hunted nearly to extinction for no better reason than a nice wolf rug for the floor.
Just going back to this Gnasher, I'm trying to understand
I don't see how the two parts of this sentence relate. It's your perception of the wolf that I find romantic.
And how dare you say the wolf is "just a species like any other". Every species is special and unique, even my own ghastly destructive species, and now YOU are playing God by saying "just a species".
I don't see the wolf, or the human for that matter, as any more or less a species than any other. There is no other life form and it's just a human way of taxonomic classification. Could you clarify why this offends.
How very magnanimous of you to say that "you would of course prefer if it (meaning the wolf) didn't become extinct" - that is extremely noble of you, and the typical arrogance of man that has driven countless thousands of species to extinction. You then go on to say in so many words "oh well, so be it, if we can't learn to moderate our behaviour, then there will be no more wolves". I despair of you Pod, I really do!
I may have worded this badly Gnasher, I was being objective, honestly! I do think you maybe read rather more emotively than the words intended.
and the extinction of countless of thousands of species over eternity cannot be laid entirely at the doors of homo sapiens.
That's just a bit of an understatement!
Homo sapien as a species has been around for less than half a million years. Life on earth began over three and a half
billion years ago. There have been many mass extinctions in that time. It's a natural process of the earth's evolution.
However, we are now the kings of the castle, and as such we are responsible for the destruction of species on a daily basis - totally unnecessarily and in the full knowledge that we are doing just that - destroying completely for all eternity other living creatures.
I know you're not going to like this Gnasher but this is another normal part of evolution. Nobody is saying it is 'right' but to take an objective view, it isn't wrong either. It just happens. Now I can understand this sounding arrogant, if you were viewing this emotively.
You may believe us to be king now but this is only one snippet of the timeframe just as the dinosaur reign was.