What do you assume the minimum return should be toward that which created and sustains us?

Question

No matter religion, commerce, or politics I suggest we are a self indulgent and selfish species and from where I sit it seems our currency renders little value.

There are few exceptions.

I suggest existence exists with or without human awareness and we should fully consider what we all impose before proceding any further, no matter whose side you are born or coerced into.

I ask: where do we exist in balance as do pods of whales, flocks of birds, colonies of ants, abundant oceans, meadows, forests or streams…All of which, we burden.

Answer 1

well we are at the top of the food chain. we feel, we think, we are greedy,  we are a species among many other different species. most of all we learn and we have,we use and not use technology. most of all we learn from out rights and our wrongs.  i do see us doing things wrong. and i see others trying to right those wrongs.

Answer 2

All life is meaningless anyway.  In 2 billion years, all life on earth will be dead.  Does it REALLY matter if it happens next year instead? I'm not advocating that, just asking.

The earth has been here for 4.5 billion years and had life for about 3 billion.  If that life lasts a total of 3 billion years or a total of 5 billion years... what's the real difference?

Answer 3

Humans are a type of animal that is very successful and I for one feel no guilt about it.  We are the only species that has members that are well fed enough and safe enough to ponder how powerful and dominant we are to the point where we wished we weren't so successful and wished we weren't so dominant.

Answer 4

I don't know about you, but I wasn't created.  As to where we stand in balance to the other things of nature, we don't.

   Humans have the ability to destroy and lord over everything else. We are the destroyers, and we're doing an excellent job of it.

   Without human interference, the world would continue a beautiful green ball for millions of more years, as it is, our job is nearly finished.  Sometime in the future, the world will be a ball of sand and stone. That will be proof of human life having been here.