Ray's Law- All good discussion moves towards philosophy and/or relativism. Nice thread OP.
The Observer Effect?
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Is that what "humans are not part of the natural world" called now? Or are you just being excessively charitable?
I agree. And just like every other species that went extinct, we have our Achilles Heel that will be our undoing. We have been around a relatively short amount of time compared with some species. The enlarged brain was an interesting evolutionary experiment. We will take many other species with us when we go, which I suppose is unprecedented, but I believe that, too, is part of the natural way of things.
I had a fish that I need to ID sometime try to bite my fingertips off while I was trying to get a shot of a shrimp eating a sea star's leg. I tried to swat it away, but of course you can't touch them if they don't want you to. So: not thrilled, tried to hit back, did not succeed (nor did I expect to). I claim justifiable self-defence.
Better but still too anthropocentric: we won't take them with us, we'll perish in the same extinction event with them.
Yeah, Earth won't be a pleasant planet for the last humans. In the meantime, I'm going to chow down on what we've got left.
Getting back a bit to the topic, I prefer to neither intentionally eat species on the verge of extinction nor abstain from all seafood. I believe we're going down as a species--and sooner rather than later on the evolutionary timeline--but I would prefer to neither hasten our demise nor go out of my way to delay it. Some sort of balance for my time here on Earth.
Man cannot violate the laws of nature. Everything we do is within the laws of nature. Primitive tool making did not keep nature untouched. Look at all the big game species that went extinct in North America 20-40,000 years ago. Man can make what seem to be good or bad decisions but they are all within nature.
Lots of species have been driven to extinction long before we began grunting around.
Its like natural or unnatural foods. All obey the laws of physics and chemistry. Some natural things are very deadly. Some "artificial" things are good. Judge on merits not on labels.
Personally I do not eat things that are rare or that I view as having rudimentary intelligence. (dolphins, primates, etc.) Intelligence is on a continuum. Now chickens they are so dumb they deserve to die.
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