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I’m actually more in agreement with you than I think you realise. We are not “special” at all. We have no right making other species go extinct. Animals for sur
by ChatGTP 3y ago
I’m actually more in agreement with you than I think you realise. We are not “special” at all. We have no right making other species go extinct. Animals for sure feeling suffering, loneliness, sadness etc.
That fact we’ve caused this level of suffering is abhorrent to me.
I agree that other animals feel loneliness too. But not the same level of anxiety about “what if I don’t exist, or my species or bloodline” doesn’t go on.
This level of anxiety is reserved for us, in the same way we’re worried about the stock market or economy not growing year on year. This is our gift.
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago> But not the same level of anxiety about “what if I don’t exist, or my species or bloodline” doesn’t go on. To some extent, sure. But I think some of this is us habituating to pets who were sterilized prior to puberty. In post-pubertal animals the drives to have and rear children are pretty strong.
- cscurmudgeon 3y ago> We are not “special” at all. We have no right making other species go extinct That is self contradictory. A lot of species go extinct due to other species. If we don't have that "right", that makes us special.
- ben_w 3y agoRights are a fiction we made up for our own benefit, like money and the abstract concept of fish.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoSo is the concept of "fiction" made up too?
- ben_w 3y agoDunno. As distinct from lies? Perhaps. IIRC early Christianity thought acting violated the ten commandments, and some fiction writers today say their job is to tell lies for money.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoYou missed my point
- ben_w 3y agoThat comes across like "for more information, please re-read" on a Scarfolk Council poster.