RE: Why do evolutionists protect endagered species???
April 4, 2012 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2012 at 2:28 pm by Jackalope.)
(April 4, 2012 at 1:55 pm)elunico13 Wrote:(April 4, 2012 at 1:28 pm)Paul the Human Wrote:(April 4, 2012 at 1:24 pm)elunico13 Wrote: I think so.
Of course you do.
Does anyone have an explanation that is non-contradictory???
Yes, I want to preserve them because they're tasty.
Next question?
(April 4, 2012 at 1:59 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Empathy is the reason most people want to prevent an entire species from going extinct. It doesn't matter if the extinction is due to evolution in action, most people still feel bad about seeing a species die out.
This I agree with.
Quote:Most of the time, however, it is not evolution in action, but a direct result of humanity's detrimental effect on the planet, so it then becomes our duty to try to stop the extinction from happening.
It can reasonably be argued that humanity's detrimental impact on our planet is evolutionary process in action. All species impact thier environment, some to a (much) greater degree than others - humans of course being the most successful at making a mess of things. I don't see how that makes our actions unnatural or somehow separate from evolution.
Species go extinct due to inadequate defense from predation, inability to adapt to changing habitat, and so forth. We're just the most disruptive species on the planet (by far, obviously).
None of this is to say that I disagree with your conclusion - that we should attempt to save endangered species. It's not necessarily out of a sense of duty or altruism (though those are factors), in some cases, it's out of self-interest. On the topic of self-interest, failure to modify our destructive behavior will, sooner or later, lead to disastrous consequences for ourselves.
