On 5/1/2009 7:29 AM, somebody wrote:
> "Chambers"<ben### [at] pacificwebguycom>  wrote in message
>> I find it irrational not to plan for sustainability.
>
> Sustain what exactly? If you don't exist, there's nothing to sustain,
> nothing to break.

Simply put, continued existence of as many species as possible.

While ego would dictate that I am more important than You, 
philosophically I've progressed beyond that.  I'm currently at the point 
(consciously, if not unconsciously yet) where I value your life the same 
as my own, for the simple reason that, according to chance, your life 
could have been mine and vice versa.

Put another way, from an outside perspective there is no difference 
between one human and another.  Both lives are equally valid, therefore 
both are equally important.

Taken even further, there is no difference between one form of life and 
another.  All are equally valid expressions of their own fate.

Given this, I value all life, and I would like to preserve as much as 
possible.  I am not speaking of preserving individual lives, but of 
kinds of life, here.

Since I recognize that I cannot preserve all specimens, I think the best 
course of action would be to preserve as many unique types of life as 
possible.  Given that preservation is my goal, sustainability is a key 
part of that.

Note that, in this case, I'm much more of a pragmatist than an idealist. 
  I'm perfectly willing to eat meat, and eliminate certain wildlife from 
urban areas, et cetera.

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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