(March 13, 2010 at 6:03 pm)Ace Wrote: We are the most dominent life forms? When was this?
Bacteria is the most dominent life form. It covers every life sustainable area on this planet. Is capable of wiping us out with little effert, we need it for our very existance and we are made of it. The most basic cells are the most dominent.
Small life forms like bacteria that wiped out half of the population of europe (black death). We are not the most dominent, we are too easily killed. One earthquake can take out millions. On plague can wipe most of us out.
Also our so-called intellect could get us all killed. Nuclear weapons anyone? So not only are we pathetic in physical strenght but mental abilities too.
I want to toss this out there - I heard an interesting hypothesis several months ago. While there's certainly been plenty of small wars (conflicts really) since the advent of nuclear weapon technology, there's been far less killing than traditionally seen throughout history since the development of advanced nuclear weapon technology. Apparently the idea of mutually assured destruction has provided an excellent deterrent against large scale military conflict (the type where millions are killed, not just a few thousand or even tens of thousands). Just an observation (not really advocating any particular approach, but something I suppose we need to make a mental note of as we're formulating what our own positions should be).