Originally Posted by Chairman Kaga
A man has a gun pointed at a baby, another man has a gun pointed a dog. You can only save one. Which one would you choose? Are your morals really that convoluted?
You're talking like we purposely hunt all animals down with the sole purpose of eating them to extinction o_O; There are an estimated 30-50 million species of animals on this earth. We may commonly eat ten or less.
I don't see us hunting any animal to extinction for food. Of the ten or so prevously mentioned species, almost all are raised on farms for food purposes. Farmers have been doing their job for thousands of years, and yet the population of farmed animals has only increased with each generation. Even in the dark ages they weren't stupid enough to not know that you have to set aside a certain percent of your stock for breeding. This way no type of farmed animal can go extinct. And, on top of that, there are wild, undomesticated types of all farm animals still roaming the wild. While they are genetically a bit different, they are, in essence, the same.
Do we EAT insects? Besides the primitive humans in the rainforest? Would you go to their lands and condemn them for eating what they need to survive?
Maybe one or two breeds of fish eat mosquitos. 99% of all fish eat other fish and plankton. All birds would still be alive. Most plants breed through pollen, seed-spreading through droppings is just a minor type of breeding, although necessary for a few types of plants. Herbivores don't tend to eat those types of plants. We're not predators. Predators hunt and kill without thinking. We've risen far above that.
As a Christian (I am too, to clarify), you honestly believe this? You're basically contradicting yourself by saying that you believe man has no purpose.
I'm surprised you haven't killed yourself or committed mass murder to haste the destruction of man with an attitude like this. Parasites? What, for example, will all the domesticated species to if man leaves them? They'll die out because we've trained them to rely on us. And what about the species that go extinct naturally? We're the only thing standing between life and oblivion for tens of thousands of species. But this won't change anything for you; we're nothing but parasites.
But we still govern them, which means that, if you believe what you do, they exist for our purposes. Not just as food (but most certainly as food. God Himself commands in the old testament what meats we are allowed and not allowed to eat. Where to you think the concept of food being Kosher came from in Judaism?), but as pleasure, as tools, basically however we can utilize them.
That would be cannibalism. You're taking the word "govern" a bit too literally. We have dominion over animals; and dominion comes from the word "dominate", to rule, control, etc. But syntax is beside the issue. Just next time, try to look through the world through a less idealistic eye. I could make my entire counter-argument here, but it would fall on deaf ears.
You completltrely misunderstood what I was trying to say. I was using insects as an example, duh.