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Originally Posted by BadAnimal
Thanks for the welcome Batlord. Of course there are other animals who kill their own kind and "wage war" over things like territory, but, like Gysin says, we kill not only our own kind, but "any and all other animals". I'm sure there are no other animals doing this.
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Of course animals kill other animals. They do it for territory, food, fun, and just about any other reason that humans do.
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I agree that some animals can cause environmental damage; however, I believe the damage is minor in comparison to damage caused by humans; when do we ever hear of major, irreversible environmental damage caused by animals? We hear about it constantly as a result of industry (as PoorOldPo also pointed out).
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Because they don't have the ability to do so. The whole reason we cause such destruction is because we have the resources that no other animal does and instincts honed over millions of years of constantly
not having those resources. A little bit of sentience is no match for that much built up instinct at least as far as an entire species goes.
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I do not believe Gysin was taking a stab at the human race and plain out calling us "worse than any other animal species", I think the underlying point is that we understand the consequences of our actions and still refuse to change.
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And I think it's still lazy logic that is more about indulging in cynicism than making sense. Not that I want to get into some long drawn out internet conversation about something I don't particularly care about either.