Earthling
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Why is it that I continually read the exploits of people who enjoy and keep snakes/herps and also condemn those who kill snakes, yet at the same time these same people, actively hold a gun in their hands and actively search for other species of animals to kill and then kill them?
These same people will spruik the usual dialogue of:
Snakes are part of our environment
Snakes have feelings too
Snakes are misunderstood
Of course these killers will usually promote the conservation value of their killing. If this conservation value is truly part of their belief system, then why is the most major destructive species on this planet not part of that argument and also killed by them? Humans are one of the most destructive species on the planet, yet the conservation argument suddenly becomes null and void.
Why?
Because we are better than another animal?
Surely you are not that arrogant...
Copied from Wiki:
‘According to a 1998 survey of 400 biologists conducted by New York's American Museum of Natural History, nearly 70 percent believed that they were currently in the early stages of a human-caused extinction,[30] known as the Holocene extinction. In that survey, the same proportion of respondents agreed with the prediction that up to 20 percent of all living populations could become extinct within 30 years (by 2028). Biologist E. O. Wilson estimated [5] in 2002 that if current rates of human destruction of the biosphere continue, one-half of all species of life on earth will be extinct in 100 years.[31] More significantly the rate of species extinctions at present is estimated at 100 to 1000 times "background" or average extinction rates in the evolutionary time scale of planet Earth.[32]’
I argue that a species that causes this much destruction is not any ‘better’ than any other species. On the contrary it could be argued that IT IS WORSE if you used the ‘conservation’ argument that killers usually promote to justify their past times.
I spruik:
“Killing a snake is bad
A snake is an animal.
Therefore, killing an animal is bad.”
Earthlings who like to kill as an enjoyable past time and can still justify their killing, please reread the above, breath, relax and then tell me where my argument fails.