Warp wrote:
> 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.

Since none of the other species shows any regard whatsoever for the 
effects of its behavior on other life, you are holding man to a 
different standard than other forms of life.  If man is merely a product 
of nature, this is illogical.

Regards,
John

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