Do you think animals, birds, fish are here for Man to do with as he pleases?

Question

Do you think of man as the highest species, therefore with a "natural" right to use animals for food, clothing, domestication, etc.?

OR, do you think humans have an obligation to ensure the survival of all species?

Answer 1

No, humans just dominate and eventually will destroy all other life forms. Eventually, gaia will settle the issue.

Answer 2

Not all living animals are here for man"s benefit,its for animal themselves to survive.The scriptures says the animals were created first before man.The animals have the right to domain on this earth.The role obligation of man is not to abuse them for any reason,but also to preserve them with respect although it is natural right for a man to utilize the resources from animals for human to survive in compliance with the law of the land and standard authority.

Answer 3

No! I think that animals were put on this earth by God to live. Not to be eaten by man. I mean animals can eat themselves, but (as a vegetarian) I think animals were NOT put here to be eaten. So yes, I think that humans have an obligation to ensure the survival of all of the species.

Answer 4

I think that some animals and such are put here for man to eat and survive.

Answer 5

God created animals and us humans should protect them.  Not slaughter and kill them for what they can offer us, accept for food of course.  That is the natural way how God intended for things to be.

Answer 6

In the bible, God made us so that we would be stewards here on Earth. That is we would take care of the plants and species. However, we hanen't exactly been the greatest caretakers over tha past few years have we?

Answer 7

It was a man who wrote that man has the right of domination over ,what he thinks are lesser intelligences.But he said God wrote it of course .

I know some plants more clever than some guys

the bible and mainly Christianity has down played Nature from the start ,Animals don`t feel pain have no emotions ,Humans are superior ,and white are more superior than Natives ,who can be hunted ,because some where in the small print it says they are non believers .

I guess this makes it easier to exploit everything else, that is not baptized.

We can hardly govern ourselves ,and are not really qualified to govern anything else ,we only have our own point of view to work with ,

to be king of the birds you need to have wings

ha ha

Answer 8

No, if it wernt for a liitle DNA twek from ET we would have never been so advance and currupt. abusing the animals and earth we were realy put here to wacth over the planet becouse...



people eat to much in 1 day, if u arnt hungry dont keep eating save food.

yeah just becouse u think your the highest species dose not mean u own any and everything.

the Earth is not ours we are sopost to be caretakers of it not useing up all the resources.

and we can be the cattle for a more advances race then ours. think about it.

Answer 9

I think you make a good point, are we here to care for the Earth or is the Earth here for our survival.

There has to be a balance, not only for our survival but for future generations. However this doesn't mean that we shouldn't use the worlds resources.

So to answer your question, I would say both.

Answer 10

Yes man has domain over all living things,  We can determine if it's right to make specific organism's go extinct like the AIDS virus, or Smallpox.

Answer 11

In the bible gad made man dominate but I still think we should take care of it.

Answer 12

A balance is in order

Answer 13

Man is just one more animal, a hairless ape that has learned to use opposable thumbs to its advantage.  We create Gods to make our locust-like consumption of the natural world more palatable.

If intelligence is a measure of the right to have Dominion over nature then I vote for the octopus to be king.  It can actively use its brain to solve complex problems, and even to change the colour and texture of its skin.  Since humans can't do that they are obviously only the smartest creatures in their own minds.

Without viruses and other diseases it is not likely humanity would have evolved to this point (browse Epigenetics).  By isolating ourselves from diseases and from nature we are only stunting our own evolution.

Humans shouldn't play God for the exact same reason children shouldn't play with guns!

Answer 14

Man has no right over any living thing.