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Charles Darwin held out hope that man would evolve into a more perfect species, but feared that he was already doomed to self-destruction before getting there. Certainly, we are no better for following the Commandment to "Be fruitful and multiply. . . ." Genesis 1:28 (KJV). Ours has not been a history of good husbandry. Man may be master on this planet; but we are rapidly laying waste to the land and sea and the air upon which we depend for life's subsistence; for when this goes, then, surely as the earth turns, so shall we go also.
It's human nature to multiply. Animals don't consider whether or not there are already enough them running around. Hence, another thing that sets us apart.
The principal characteristic of human nature to be resistant to change; it is our human bondage. There are some faults so ingrained as to be part of human nature. In this, we repeat the same mistakes not because we fail to learn from them, but because we have not changed ourselves. Still, we persist in the same pattern - from father to son, mother to daughter, generation on generation - over and over again, in an endless cycle. To understand this is to understand the nature and tragedy of our lives.
Why is it that Human beings see themselves as seperate and superior to other living animals on this planet? All we are is but animals as well. We are no more important than the average housefly, no more special. Sure, we are fortunate to be gifted with the attribute of self awareness, and much more intelligence than any other animal, but that doesn't make us the rulers of this planet. It doesn't entitle us to somehow own this planet. If we were all to vanish this very second, Earth would go on without us, and thrive. Thrive with life.
Why are human beings so arrogant to not realize that we are not among the animals here, but we also, ARE but animals here?
Why does the lion think he's so darn special? What gives him the right to run around killing zebras and Bambi? Who appointed him King of the savannah? The nerve!
Let's not even talk about the Great White. Talk about a superiority complex!
It's human nature to multiply. Animals don't consider whether or not there are already enough them running around. Hence, another thing that sets us apart.
Animals do not need to "consider" whether or not there population is large enough as nature will make that decision for them...if the human animal does not interfere that is.
Nature will also arbitrarily render some humans infertile, but the billion dollar business of fertility drugs and techniiques has also interfered with that.
There is way too many of us and we have caused extinctions of other species and their natural habitats...and that's a fact!
Animals do not need to "consider" whether or not there population is large enough as nature will make that decision for them...if the human animal does not interfere that is.
Nature will also arbitrarily render some humans infertile, but the billion dollar business of fertility drugs and techniiques has also interfered with that.
There is way too many of us and we have caused extinctions of other species and their natural habitats...and that's a fact!
A determination that you can make that animals can't.
Why is it that Human beings see themselves as seperate and superior to other living animals on this planet? All we are is but animals as well. We are no more important than the average housefly, no more special. Sure, we are fortunate to be gifted with the attribute of self awareness, and much more intelligence than any other animal, but that doesn't make us the rulers of this planet. It doesn't entitle us to somehow own this planet. If we were all to vanish this very second, Earth would go on without us, and thrive. Thrive with life.
Why are human beings so arrogant to not realize that we are not among the animals here, but we also, ARE but animals here?
Humans bite too far into nature's balance and it will bite back.
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