Shouldn't we learn off animals??

Question

Humans are idiots! We are so selfish we are wrecking the earth and everything and everyone around us due to our own selfishness in every aspect of our lives. Since when is 'complicating' things better? And yet we complicate our lives horribly!

Animals know how to live with the earth. Animals understand nature and the simplicity of life. It is well known that animals in captivity don't breed unless given as natural an environment as possible.

Why don't we learn how to live on this earth by watching animals?

All other animal species must look at us and think 'Can't believe these humans think we are dummer than them! They're idiots..... In their own animal-type of communication.

I love animals and have 1000 times more respect for animals than humans.

Answer 1

This a place for questions and answers; not rants.

As for animals, they don't "know" how to live with the earth; they simply "do". Deers don't lie down before wolves if the deer population gets to large.  Animals are just as selfish as humans. In fact they are even more so because they lack vision and purpose.

The problem with humans is that many of them act like animals! They have little sense of purpose, spirituality, and wisdom. They are merely concerned with survival, comfort, fun, and pleasure. Show me an animal that is not concerned with these things.

I love animals, too. I would turn my small apartment into a zoo if my wife would let me. However, animals are not worth more than people. The greatest man to walk the earth once said:

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"

Matthew 6:26

Keep things in perspective.

Answer 2

I totally agree, there's no badness in animals.

Answer 3

Humans are animals.

Answer 4

You are aware that any animal species would readily overpopulate and overstress their environment if given the opportunity. They don't know how to live with the Earth, they simply are good at living on Earth. Case in point: Wolves were recently reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. Why? They had been eliminated decades ago, and the deer population was completely unchecked by predators. All of the tree saplings were being eaten by deers, and almost the entire park was old growth trees. Yellowstone was slowly dying because the deer have no inherent concept of environmental conservation. So people brought the wolves back, and now we have new trees finally able to grow up big and strong. Humans screwed things up in the first place, but it's not like the animals there were trying to keep any sort of balance.

Prairie Dogs will eat each other's babies. Sharks tear each other apart. Monkeys hunt and cannibalize, chimps sexually assault their females (in groups, no less). Dogs eat their own c**p.

I love animals, and I think they do have inherent worth as living things, and that as humans we should give them consideration as our neighbors on this planet. But I understand what animals are, and what they are capable of. Humans aren't stupid, we just happen to be able to make a lot of opportunities for ourselves, something that animals do all the time. Does your dog complain when you bring him in from the cold into your fossil-fuel heated home? Nope.

Answer 5

We've come a long way since that distant ancestor stole a bone from some predator & broke it open with a rock.  We stand on the shoulders of long dead men & women & have the ability to learn & build on their success & failures. I think we have done amazingly well for an animal that first left the safety of trees less than 10 million years ago.

To my knowledge, no other animal can analyze their failures & change their cultures & methodology based upon predictions of future problems.  While some humans will always make bad decisions, others will make quality decisions that enhance the lives of not only humans, but other animals.  

Some will sit in a corner & whine while others seek a solution for improving the lives of everything on Earth.  It is my opinion that humanity's destiny is among the stars, not sitting in a cave whinning. While I will never live to see the generation that leaves Earth for the stars, I hope my meager contributions will do something to aid coming generations.

No task is impossible for humans & every correct answer will lead to more questions.

Certainly I love this domesticated gray wolf sitting under my desk, but he has no thoughts of what awaits his future generations, nor any desire to improve their lot either.