Do you agree that all species have an inherent right to exist?

Question

if so why?

Answer 1

Isn't that a morality question?  I have as much right to exist as a rock.  If you mean, should life be fair?  I don't know.  You wouldn't be here, and neither would I, if fairness played a part in natural selection.  Life is not a fair fight.  It's for the fittest.

I wish life were fair, though, and every species could live in harmony with each other.  Every species has an inherent right to exist in my mind.  Nature disagrees with me, though, and it is stronger than me.

Answer 2

except mosquitoes....they suck!!!!!!!!!!! lol

Answer 3

No. Basically, we observe a living thing, all we know is that this organism exists. Whether it has a right to do so or not is inherently subjective and relative. It entirely depends on a hierarchy of power.

The right to exist depends on your philosophical standpoint; If I think that people have a right to exist as long as they believe in such and such god, then others don't. The TRUTH is, these rights only appear when we invent them.

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Answer 4

Only if humans decree it

Answer 5

That is not a scientific question. Individuals either exist, or they don't. We have an ability to compete successfully against others, so we dominate the large animals on the land surface.

But it is not a right. It is just by chance that we are here (Thank You Asteroid, for helping to wipe out the dinosaurs). On the moral side of things, we should not wantonly kill other species. But then if we upset the ecosystem, we may make life unlivable for ourselves. Extinction is quite a normal event.

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Answer 6

No, not really.  There are so many species competing that saving one imperils another.  Let nature take its course unless it is a significant higher animal.  In that case, it probably merits the attention of humans to make sure it survives.

Answer 7

no, if they were meant to live they wouldn't die

Answer 8

Yes, because everything is here for a reason, whether we see it or whether it does anything directly for us or not. All species, animal and plant, have a niche and a purpose they fulfill and it's important to embrace that and make sure it stays intact.

Answer 9

I don't know that  I'd say the HIV virus, and that small-pox have an inherent right to exist.

But I would say that chimps, pelicans, whales, aspens, and even mosquitoes do.

Partly, it's from a live, and let live feeling.

Partly it's because of the disatrous effects on everyone else, including us, or wiping entire species out.

Wipe out one species, and you effect the entire ecosystem, messing it all up.

There's also the question of "exist WHERE"? There are "invasive" species, introduced to places they didn't naturally ocur (often by accident), that often have devestating effects on other species.

Since they have no species keeping their numbers within bounds naturally, they can really take over, and wipe or overrun the others.

When I was a child, this area had grey squirrells. Now all the squirrels are the larger, more aggressive red species that's not native to this area.

Answer 10

yes allsetient beings are precious and should not be harmed

Answer 11

Only those that taste good

Answer 12

No species has an inherent right to continue to exist because if they did we would still have dinosaurs roaming the earth etc. Anyway there are winners and losers out of an extinction, the lack of dinosaurs certainly makes our lives easier!