Humans have enslaved virtually the entire planet to do their bidding.
We have ultimate control over the lives of virtually every other living thing on
the planet whether they like it or not. We choose which species to protect and
which to ignore, we choose which habitats to plow down and which to preserve -
nature chooses none of this these days. What is in the "wild" can at will be
exterminated by us and there appears to be nobody to stop us.
What argument is there which allows for mankind to make slaves of other
animals, but which might make it somehow "wrong" for another more powerful
species from another more technologically advanced world to enslave _humanity_?
Should being a creature of reason somehow convey an implicit immunity to
predation or something? Going even one step further, why is it okay to enslave
a non-human animal for some chore or another but not a human one? Is it simply
the lack of the feeling that we are connected to them as we often feel to each
other?
If the non-human animals of the world could have their internal thoughts
and feelings translated into words that we could understand, I think we'd find
an abundance of diversity that no single species of its own accord is capable of
imagining. But we don't seem to be interested in that. Most of us don't, at
least. That's horribly sad to me. I just keep thinking how it would be to have
some advanced predator treat us the way that we as a species treat every single
other animal we ever encounter. It's mind-boggling that we're so arrogant.
And yet, even that could be seen as just part of evolution. That would
be true, too. But if we're not willing to rise above our own animal nature and
use the reason with which we've evolved to become something greater than what we
were, then what's the point of all this?
Manifestations of evolved logic are not often found in our ecosystem.
If we use it do nothing more than make ourselves bigger, badder "predators",
then we will inevitably lose it some day. There's only so far one can go as a
predator - you will eventually have mastered the hunt in every way, shape or
form. That is an eventual dead end. But if we use our reasoning to explore our
universe, reality and each other, there is no limit to how big we can become.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword" I think someone once said - probably in
the Christian Bible, but even coming from that profane text it is nonetheless a
useful thing to remember.
--
L8r,
Uncle Clover
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Every birth carries within
it the seed of its own
demise
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The world would be a much
better place if everyone
would learn to sit down,
shut up and just *BE*
once in awhile....<
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Blog: "Family - The Binds That Tie"
http://bindsthattie.blogspot.com/
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