The reason why humans are so dangerous.

I think the reason why humans are causing so much destruction is science. Science leads to technological advancement which leads to humans being overpowered relative to other organisms. Technology is behind every disaster caused by humans, and technology comes from the growing knowledge that comes from the scientific method. Hunting is only dangerous because of guns. Without guns, hunting could not result in extinction and indeed, not all animals could be hunted efficiently at all (rhinos come to mind). Casualties would be inevitable when trying to hunt lions, rhinos, etc… and humans would fear a lot of the animals that have been reduced to dangerously low numbers, which is how it should be.

Lions, Tigers, etc… should be above us in the food chain. I don’t want to get my face ripped off and subsequently eaten, but I could avoid that by respecting the territory of animals that are superior in combat. That is the next thing to discuss, territory. We demolish land and destroy ecosystems. Eventually nature will diminish and you wont be able to see anything but pavement and buildings. Humans will become extinct when the presence of plants and animals is vanquished. The earth has a maximum capacity for humans, and it is a shame that as humans come closer and closer to it that everything else has to be destroyed as well.

EDIT: It is also very sad that eventually the two most common types of animals will be house pets like dogs and cats that are the result of selective breeding for qualities that make animals increasingly dependent on humans for survival, and animals that are bred just to be killed, harvested, and eaten. Eventually animals will be nothing but poor weak little pets that can’t get food on their own and live to serve the emotional needs of humans, or helpless animals that are forced to do nothing but eat, drink, and sleep until they are all slaughtered and their bodies processed for food. Food chains won’t exist anymore. Animals need to be respected. I think we need to give away some of our land to animals.

No such thing as “should be”, things are how they are; we can change it though

Humans aren’t a nature’s alter (or either there’s no such thing as nature, depends on your definition of it), so I’d say we evolved so we are now above them, so it’s legitimate and “natural”.

Even if humans weren’t part of nature, it did destroy more than we would be ever able to.

Doubt an apocalypse is in place now. That doesn’t mean we don’t need to do anything to stop it though. In the worst case, colonization of other planets is the way to go. Maybe giving Noah’s Arc another meaning would help us too in that situation.

Agreed.

Just curious, what makes you think that we should take any animal into consideration at all? Why should we care if a species goes extinct?

You say that humans are dangerous. to whom? Your ideology, if implemented (the attacks on science, technology, and then as a consequence, our longer life spans, greater health, our civilization. Any attack on science (which means the mind) is an attack on mankind, and motivated by the hatred of him.) is much more dangerous, to say me, personally, and every other human being on the planet, than the worse pollution, deforestation, of slaughterhouse in the world.

Creativity is one of humanity’s greatest powers, yes, and that is seen in technological invention…

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I think the reason why humans are causing so much destruction is science. Science leads to technological advancement which leads to humans being overpowered relative to other organisms. Technology is behind every disaster caused by humans, and technology comes from the growing knowledge that comes from the scientific method. Hunting is only dangerous because of guns. Without guns, hunting could not result in extinction and indeed, not all animals could be hunted efficiently at all (rhinos come to mind). Casualties would be inevitable when trying to hunt lions, rhinos, etc… and humans would fear a lot of the animals that have been reduced to dangerously low numbers, which is how it should be.

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Chinese invented gunpowder , but their values saw itsue usefulness not in killing but in a festival of fireworks.

The point is, technology itself is value-free and value-neutral. It is what a culture values, or devalues, that can lead the technology to being used for dangerous purposes

Most archeolgists,by the way, have found the most plausible reasons for the extinction of many species of prehistoric animals, such as the mastedon, to have been a result of early hunters driving them to extinction.
It is the human mind, and human cooperative ventures, that are awesome tools, in an of themselves, with or without technology. Modern Technology increases both the harm and the benefit that human endeavor can cause to all life forms on earth, but it is within humanity that the source of the power is contained.

Creativity, and pursuit of human excellence, and individual freedom are all wonderful human attributes. However, what the modern world has become faced with today is the awesome power of the human creatitivy, in a world in which the grounds of any morality at all have become devalued. Nihilsitc vbalues, be they religiously inclined, or the product of a more secular hedonism, or most commonly some byproduct of the merging of the two, predominate.

God may be dead, but the existential, human need for God is still very much alive. It is the raw power of the human beast that leads to a need for mastery and direction being given.

In th end, the highest values of a man are those of an ethical and moral nature. No human society can propser without such values.
And no man being an island unto himself, as goes society, so goes the man.