(June 3, 2013 at 4:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Sounds like power to me, how about you?Nope. Sounds like a good deal. We aren't being put at a disadvantage by walking around and doing plants a favour. Like you said, they even fulfill our desires. Power goes by many definitions but the one you're going for is probably the ability to influence other beings, in which case, depending on what one considers 'influence', everything has power over everything.
When I was speaking of our power over other animals, I wasn't thinking to dive into semantics. I was using 'power' to describe our ability to exploit.