Quote Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned View Post
Humans are animals. Apes in fact. I'm rejecting the anthrocentric viewpoint that humans are somehow better than other animals or somehow endowed with rights that other animals lack. I see no mechanism for this to be the case and nobody has ever been able to justify it for me.
That is not what I said. I said that, since you are a human, you should value human life over other animal life, unless you are a misanthrope.

You're working with group selectionism here? That doesn't lead to a consistent theory. Evolution happens via selection of the individuals within a species, not the species itself. No organism behaves with regard to the well being of the whole species: only with regard to its own wellbeing and those that will statistically bear its own genes.
No, I mean that your statement was retarded so I countered with a dumbed-down explanation of something that goes like:

Shit interacting = Shit interacting. How you interpret it, is a completely different matter. You see wolf overpopuation as something natural that we should not 'interfere with' (Wait what? Interfere? I didn't think there was such a thing with your worldview!) and I see it as a problem that can be controlled to help balance the populations and keep the ecology of the area from becoming lopsided, or at least undesirable.

Certainly you belive in the preservation of rare species, don't you?