Do you believe that humans, by evolving and dominating all other species, is responsible for the welfare of?

Question

all other species? Are we not all part of the food chain?

Answer 1

We are not responsible for everything else alive. But we are accountable for our actions.

Answer 2

The food chain is a self correcting thing. In the years where there are too few lemmings the population of the owls that prey on them diminishes. We broke the food chain thousands of years ago when we invented agriculture and our population just gets bigger and bigger despite environmental catastrophes.

We have become something different than what has gone before and we are largely in charge of our own future and the future of many other species. I think we have to hold each other responsible and accountable for the welfare of animals because if we don't the stupid and greedy will destroy other species quicker than they are already being destroyed and ruin the planet for the rest of us.

Answer 3

It is questionable, from a scientific point of view, whether a judgement like "responsibility" can be supported. From a point of view of survival of the species (human, that is), it has to be said that we are all dependent on each other, and that the food chain is inexcapable. The fact is, that under almost every future scenario that I have been able to examine, (except for the ones written by economists), the majority of the human race is going to die off, and the world of living things will adjust to our relative absence. Our choice is whether to ease, and possibly slow the change, or make it rougher and uglier.

Answer 4

Who owns the mountain is he who smiles widest from standing on it. He who kicks dog s***s on carpet.

Answer 5

We are all connected.  What we do to each other (including other animals) effects us... so in a sense we are responsible for the welfare of all living things.... in my opinion.

Answer 6

No, just as lions are not responsible for the lives of gazelles.

If our food becomes extinct because we have disturbed part of the food chain, then we either learn to eat something else, or die out. Whatever comes after us will do the same.  

That's life.

Answer 7

yes, certainly