Thorwyn
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I don't think the lion is trying to prove to the gazelle that they are superior and neither are we by extinguishing species.
No, the lion is hungry and wants something to eat. But his mind only offers him one solution for this, which is: "kill dem fast running things and eat ´em". He doesn´t have the ability to think emphatically. He probably doesn´t even recognize the gazelle as another living being. In this particular case, it is indeed a survival of the fittest situation. Now, mankind has access to alternatives. They can eat plants or they can even eat meat. But the difference is, that this happens with full concience and full responsibility.
There's always consequences of the actions we and any living creature preforms and in the end I belive that man will perish from our selfishness. It's such a tricky (woo my browser decided to work again) question to work with, life on earth.
Here, we seem to agree.
Why does it matter if lions live or die? are they a special creature with magical powers to bring harmony in the universe?
If you see someone lying in the street, obviously dying... would you help him? And if so, why? Does it matter if he lives or dies? You can turn all those questions around. Why would we - active or passive - deliberately let a species or a creature die? That´s the point where we´re crossing the line between the purey evolutional aspect (which you seem to prefer and which is perfectly valid of course) and enter the realm of ethics. There is no NEED to let the lions die. We could kill them, but we don´t HAVE to.
im too feeble minded to gasp the complexity of life on Earth (and alot of other things as well so no need to bring that up!) i just belive that everything that happen is evolution, but not to justify genocide or anything, for me its a fact of life (my head is imploding when im trying to explain my thoughts on this, sorry!). if evolution isnt the purpose of life, life itself to me is meaningless.
Now we´re drifting off into some very philosophical spheres. Purpose and meaning of life. There are so many aspects here. Why would evolution be the purpose of life, when all life is about to end in a couple billion years anways? It´s a very personal thing, but I don´t believe that evolution is the sole purpose of life. But that´s too far OT for now.