Animals are more important than humans?

Question

Many people believe that they are more important than animals for no apparent reason except that we just happened to evolve larger brains. I don't, infact, I believe that animals are more important than humans, why? Because of the food chain. Animals play a huge role in it. For example: a spider gets a fly caught in it's web and eats it, then a bird eats the spider. The spider helps keep the fly population down, while the bird helped keep the spider population down.

And what role do humans play you ask? Nothing, absolutely nothing. All we do is damage the Earth. It would be much better off if we didn't exist. Not only does killing one creature do damage to that creatures population, but it'll do damage to whatever eats it, thus just giving more trouble to many creatures. Now, global warmings coming and it's all our fault.

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

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Even though u r right, morally speaking, along with a better evolved brains, humans have got the selfishness and the shortsightedness to behave the way they do with regard to nature and other members in it.

But, whether it'd have been much better without us (humans) ever coming to existence is a philosophical question, which can give rise to a series of other questions, like what good is life in general serving by being in existence since so long ("And what role do humans play you ask? Nothing, absolutely nothing. All we do is damage the Earth. It would be much better off if we didn't exist."), and what difference would it have made if life wouldn't ever existed, or for that matter this solar system or this universe itself.

Sorry, but I found ur views too strong, and "benefits" or "hazards" of everything are relative--what is gas gangrene to us is survival for Chlostridium perfringens (and other bacteria) that causes it.

And, by the way, who keeps the bird-population down? So, we do play a role in the food chain, after all, otherwise, starvation due to poverty would have never been problems for some of the poorer countries.

Bye. TC.

Answer 2

I agree, we have also killed off many species of animals

Answer 3

My first thought is that humans are animals.

My second thought is that your decision to make a distinction implies that you think we're superior as well.

My third thought is that we are superior, since we are close to bypassing natural selection, a critical leap in evolution.

Answer 4

Hamlet:
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

Rosencrantz:
My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.

Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 303–312

Answer 5

I've lived thru the ice age scare, the population scare, the social security scare, the cuban missile crisis and we will all live thru the hoax called "global warming". I don't know about your town, but in my town, they CAN"T EVEN PREDICT THE WEATHER>>>>>>>

Answer 6

I find it interesting, your statements. The spider and bird are keeping populations down, we're harming populations. How? Doing the exact same thing: eating.

Consider this: the spider prevented a frog from that juicy treat. Did the spider hurt the entire frog species? NO! The bird prevented a different from eating the spider. Did it hurt that other bird species? NO!

Further, we humans keep our own food sources, and raise them, keeping them out of the food chain. We don't consume the same resources as the other animals, except for hunting, which isn't anywhere near the same scale.

Further, when humans die, we rot, we decompose, we become food for the insects, we become soil for the trees. What with war, we do this much more efficiently than any other species.

We supply entire species with safe positions: cows, pigs, dogs, cats, every pet or food we eat? THEY WON'T EVER GO EXTINCT UNLESS WE DO. What animals and plants we've domesticated, and what benefits from that domestication (such as the microbes which live in them), has stability in a tumultuous world of evolution.

Yes, we kill species, but we're trying to stop. Global warming is the best thing ever for plants, which turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, and the only species which will be adversely hit are polar species.

We're stabilizing large parts of the global ecosystem, perfecting it, and protecting it in ways no other species can.

Answer 7

We don't have larger brains. Many animals have larger brains than humans. Brain size does not relate to intelligence.

Much of your question is a rant. Perhaps you should read the Community Guidelines.

There is absolutely NO proof that removing one animal does anything negative.

Global warming is a natural event. The amount of effect humans have on the degree and extent of global warming is debatable.

I strongly recommend you take a biology/ecology course. You seem to be missing some of the fundamentals.

Remember it is the human that has the ability to wipe out large numbers of any kinda of life form. I'd say that was pretty powerful. Humans make their own food. Humans make their own environment.

Answer 8

humans are part of the animal kingdom so that kind of throws your whole argument down the drain