Reply To: Who says we're the only ones with compassion for other species?
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Unseen@Unseen wrote, “Mostly, nature is about living and being killed rather than living and dying. Most animals don’t die with friends and relatives by their side as they pass on. If they aren’t eaten alive, they die a lonely and painful death.”
– so that’s another reason why we’re all connected. All life contains a multitude of processes, structures and experiences in common.
It’s true that some animals are pests, like cane toads in Australia, so it’s sensible to try and wipe them out. Just because lions kill baby elephants, however, is no reason to shoot them.
We humans often do die with your friends and relatives at our side. Elephants, dogs, and a few other animals seem to have that sort of empathy, but in nature it’s pretty rare.
Often, when man decides an animal is a pest and tries to do something about it, we just f**k things up even more. Australia is rife with such ill-fated attempts to control an out of control species by introducing another species that didn’t evolve there.