If we don't have the right to destroy animals on planet earth, should we eliminate ourselves out of respect?

Question

Now that humans are able to destroy all life on the planet, have we made ourselves unwelcome to all the other animals that live here? Should we therefore, out of respect to them, quietly dismiss ourselves from the planet? Instead of nuclear weapons, shouldn't we just stop mating and go out with a wimper instead of a bang? Otherwise, we will be a continued threat to other living creatures who did nothing to deserve extermintation by us. (In a nuclear war, animals will die as well as humans).

Answer 1

humans have already started a chain cycle in which they have begun to destroy animals (and when i say animals i do mean human too), the nature and all together earth. i do not see a reason why we shouldn't stop mating and exterminate ourselves, life is a repeating cycle of boredom and detrimental destruction. i would happily be the first to go jump off a cliff because all in all, throughout history, humans haven't done anything to make the earth better than it was before the first humans came to be.

Answer 2

i dunno, its up to us and we can do that,

we humans rule the planet!

but im sure if animals could speak and raise their voice, they'd want us out of this planet!

read this:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life...

Answer 3

Thank you ;)...

Answer 4

Much better than the other 'wiping out life' question! :) I think you have a point. At the same time though we are a race obsessed with progression. This would be a huge step in the direction. There are also those among us who would not build such weapons and also the point that we could be in this state of mind from the teachings and agendas of a select percent of our entire population. I dunno about you, but I'm not in a hurry to die out for someone else's mistake. Furthermore, as we have never reached this level of technology before the last 50 years and have seen minor versions of what could happen in World Wars I and II, maybe we are actually heading for a complete implosion of hostilities. Perhaps complete control over destruction of the world is what is required to make us into one body? Doubtful but possible.

Edit: And to the previous poster, other animals kill other species as well as themselves. We aren't exclusive in that regard :)

Answer 5

I agree with you, no offense to anyone but humans have harmed nearly everything they have gotten their hands on. Why should everything deserve to die because of us? We were burn into nature and without it we would've never made it here, then why are we destroying what gave us life? Why aren't we trying to save it? Humans are by far, really bad creatures, I don't see any other creature that kills each other, hurt each other and if that wasn't enough they harm other creatures, nature gave them us a gift but I'm sure it was not intended to but the life of the earth in our hands. One day, it may become fatal, maybe we should go back to nature's way, the way we were born into this world. If that can't be done, I wouldn't mind sacrificing my life, if I knew that by doing so I might save the life of Earth.  

Answer 6

Hello:

Existence itself has any number of manner of forces that cause rampant destruction from solar flares, asteroids, global warming, magnetic reversal of the poles and so on...please consider humans as another one of these when you take us as a whole.  

Now its not our fault we ended up with the big brains and valuable thumbs to be able to create all of our innovations that allow us to dominate this planet most days?  While I admit hurricanes and the like likely do not have the ability to think and consider what it is doing and do otherwise, however I question you if as a species we have significant control or if 6 1/2 billion wills simply becomes a force of its own?

To answer you question:  No.  We should do what we can to live more in accordance with the way the earth works simply because a healthy planet is the best circumstance for us as well in the long run.  Even if you could almost guarantee that our continued existance would herald the end of life on Earth I do not think an argument can be made (and more importantly followed) that humans should end our existance on the whole.  

I hope this helps

Rev Phil