Are we evil?

[Talya]

Yeah, this.



This really only holds up to even cursory scrutiny if your points of comparison are absolutely all over the place; not just an entire species but the collection of all nonhuman species are compared to the examples of specific human individual behavior patterns. In other words, not all humans, probably not even most and maybe not even really all that many humans, plan ahead and limit their consumption. If you instead compare those other animals to the collection of all humans, the argument doesn't hold up. If you instead compare a collection specific, individual humans to certain collections of specific, individual animals, the argument also won't really hold up, at least without recourse to that fallaciously nebulous argument of "understanding" I disputed earlier. Either a single animal demonstrably choosing not to over-predate (or whatever) invalidates the argument, or the argument cannot be propped up by some individual humans choosing to limit consumption.

Exactly zero percent of other creatures have any concept of or ability to engage in sustainable life practices. Given an opportunity, all other species WILL overpopulate and exhaust their environmental supplies in short order. The only thing that holds them in check is the rest of nature herself killing them off.

Nearly 100% of adult humans have the capability to understand and engage in sustainable life practices, and the majority of members of our species are at least somewhat concerned with doing so. We don't always agree on what those practices are -- it's a work in progress.