John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> If man is merely a product of nature, then his predation of other 
> species is perfectly natural.  I am quite sure that many of the species 
> to go extinct before the time of man were doing quite well, until 
> another species came along and bumped them off.

> The history of the planet indicates that none of its natives have any 
> right to any particular conditions prevailing for any period of time. 
> Adapt to the change or make way for something that can.

> As others have pointed out, there have been many mass die-offs during 
> the time of the earth's existence, from many causes.  This time around, 
> man happens to be one of those causes.  That is no more wrong than for a 
> shift in the earth's tilt, a sudden Ice Age, or the end of the same, to 
> cause a massive die-off as well.

> And in fact, if no species ever went extinct, there would be no place 
> for any other species to arise.  We owe our own existence to the fact 
> that our niche was vacant when we came along.

  You seem to be justifying man's abuse of the environment for his own
selfish purposes, disregarding all other life.

  Mass extinctions caused by natural disasters (such as a meteor smashing
the Earth or ice ages) are inevitable. Mass extinctions caused by a sentient
species, who is doing it on purpose and for selfish reasons, is very much
avoidable.

  I think you are comparing two things of completely different categories.
A meteor striking Earth and humans destroying the Earth are *not* the same
thing.

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                                                          - Warp

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