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> we are the only ones on the planet who can't live in harmony with other species. That's not true. Every species can't live in harmony with other species. Go
by paidleaf 8y ago
> we are the only ones on the planet who can't live in harmony with other species.
That's not true. Every species can't live in harmony with other species. Go read about what happened to native species on pacific islands when rats, cats, snakes, etc were introduced. They wiped out entire ecosystems of islands.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0725/How-New-Zealand-aims-to-wipe-out-all-rats-and-other-invasive-predators https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0725/How-New-Zeal...
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0725/How-New-Zealand-aims-to-wipe-out-all-rats-and-other-invasive-predators https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0725/How-New-Zeal...
Go read about ants.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352483/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352483/
They won't live in harmony with each other. A single ant colony has wiped out much of the world's ant population.
Even fish like the european carp in a span of a few hundred years wiped out much of other fish in the US and now dominate pretty much every lake and river in a continent.
> If you ever had a cat and really observed it and communicated with it, you know it has feelings and emotions. Birds have it also, so does pigs, horses... But we just ignore all that when it's convenient for us to eat them.
Cats, birds, pigs and even horses eat other animals. As a matter of facts, cats are devastating ecosystems around the world and causing many birds and mammals to go extincts.
https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/ https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
> I'm not a big fan of humanity. We are pretty awful.
You are the one putting humans on a pedestal. Humans are animals just like cats, horses, etc. We are no more awful than any other animals.
Actually, you could argue humans are less awful than other animals because we actually consciously decided to save some species. A cat or a wolf or a pig would never do that. They will consume/kill until there isn't an animal left.