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Originally posted by urgeok
as far as the debate goes ... not being a religious person i have a hard time with the arguement with animals vs people ...
i can see both sides of the arguement clearly - but i do know this .. no animal ever threatened to destroy the planet before - except us.
fucking dinosaurs .. massive creatures that struggled for life every day of their lives - existed for over 250 million years and left the planet the way they found it.
in a fraction of that time that compares to a blink of an eye - 'man' has managed to put an entire planet on the edge of destruction .. in more than just a couple of ways.
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I totallly agree with you. So where did we go wrong? It seems almost as if our advancement is an illusion. It's like we evolved to tribal society, living on the land with tides of the seasons, and then went down hill, even though we came up with all of this great shit to play with and do. I'm not saying that tribal life was perfect, but they didn't exploit the land, because they respected it too damn much. They knew better. Read the legends of the Native Americans, the African tribes, even the ancient Europeans...all of the old agrarian societies were like that. You respected the land and the animals, because without them, you were fucked.
We think that we have this "God given right" to live here. That's what mainstream religion teaches, anyway, and even non religious folk hold this too (begging your pardon, Urge) because those mainstream religions have so fully infultrated almost every nook of our thinking (or lack there of).
So if we fuck everything and kill ourselves, which we are heading towards...directly, then imagine what other processes we're going to screw up. It's the old "Take 'em down with me" thing."