> This doesn't even make sense as humans wouldn't devastate the local environment in an uncontrolled fashion the way new animals would. The current world would

> This doesn't even make sense as humans wouldn't devastate the local environment in an uncontrolled fashion the way new animals would. The current world would beg to differ.. Do you realize that you are using human exceptionalism as an assumption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptionalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptionalism)? And that you cannot hope to counter-argue on an ALF-inspired action by using the exact concept that their political stance is built against? To counter-argue you gotta start with a common ground, and your hypothesis are not in any way a common ground against that. The whole point of this thing is that there is a continuum space (not even a line) between rock, human, dog, forest, mushroom colony, dolphin, beetle, ant, ... and that tons of animals are actually pretty near from us or even quite further in several aspects. There is no human exception (or perhaps the human exception is to think there is!).