My take on that is, that animals are actually more rational than humans. Animals aren't the ones ruining the ecosystem and pulling the rug from under their feet(hooves?) Animals are hard-wired to take only what is necessary, because taking more than necessary will tip the balance in nature. If the natural environment allows growth, the animal grows (in numbers or in size) Humans on the other hand are irrational, because of their short sightedness, humans take more than they need, the excess goes to growth. After growth the need is greater, so human takes energy for that need and the excess goes to growth again. And because humans tend separate themselves from nature, although humans are part of it due the reliance on it(everything comes from nature), that's irrational. Humans don't give anything back to nature, humans only take, grow and take more. Every time our ecosystem has less and less to cope with, because nothing is given back.
The host organism (nature) will die from the irrational behavior of its parasite/cancer(human) and since the cancer is dependent on the host organism, will the cancer die also. Can anyone see the irony of humans getting cancer and not seeing that it resembles themselves?
If humans would see that they are part of nature, they wouldn't differentiate themselves from it. They would see that they are one with it. Meaning "humans" wouldn't treat "animals" like they do now, because they wouldn't want to be treated that way either. And humans wouldn't convert the reality into an artificial one: Humans make everything dead and live in it. Everything is alive in nature, but when you look around at your home, everything man made is dead. The world where humans are now is artificial, it isn't the real world, it is constructed, converted from living to dead.
And if something living dares to touch the space humans have claimed(stolen) for themselves from nature (which humans are part of) they kill it or swipe it away from their dead kingdom. e.g. raccoon, bird, fly, spider in the house. A stray dog or a bear in the streets, people clean that away too. Because "animals belong in the forest"? The street is in the forest, humans just cut down the trees and put some concrete over it. Why do humans isolate themselves from nature? Why make things inanimate, dead and then pile it to make some kind of a border to separate from something that isn't separate? Is it because there somehow has to be more to life than just eating, sleeping, procreating and dying? What is changed? Now we can add "killing out of stubbornness" to that list?
Animals maybe aren't "as smart as" humans, but that's because that smartness isn't necessary, there's nothing to fix in nature so there's nothing to invent. Nature worked perfectly fine before humans came along (when humans decided to believe that they aren't part of it) so it doesn't need inventions or technology, it works just fine as it is. Give it a thought, where are humans needed? No, seriously, what is the use of humans? Nature doesn't need humans, but humans need the nature. So why are humans treating nature the way they do, because they can? But the truth is, they can't in the long run.
Funny thing is that, in a civilized society it is expected from an individual to assume liability(go to work, pay taxes) because its existence is dependent on the society, so the individual has to give something back. Cashing welfare checks and just sitting at home is frowned upon because "if everyone did that, the society wouldn't work" because they are just taking and not giving, and others would have assume that individual's duty in addition to their own. But the whole society does exactly the same, society cashes welfare checks from nature and gives nothing back. So how can society expect anyone to assume liability, when society itself doesn't do that? Just takes and gives nothing back. "Oh nice forest, now it's a parking space for the upcoming mall." Isn't that stealing? Or is it just that no one was opposing that idea? How about every single thing, that had to be cut down, opposed that idea with their very own being? Every tree resists that idea, that's the resistance you'd feel when you are sawing a tree. Resisting with its own being. For individual to own something in a society, it has to be somehow bought, but if society decides to cut down a forest for that parking space, from whom is this space bought and with what? Seems that society doesn't live by its own rules. If an individual assumes liability in a society, it feeds, becomes a part of and identifies with the machine, that avoids it's own liability to nature. This avoidance will be ultimately the doom of that civilized society. As will be the assuming of liability, in a way.
The previous post talked about identifying with an ideology. Giving names and definitions to self. The question is, do you want to identify yourself as human, when you see what humans do to other forms of life? There's a documentary film called The Cove, it's about dolphins that get slaughtered because of no apparent reason, no other than money. The dolphins are chased to the shore, where they will be met by dolphin trainers from dolphinariums around the world. The trainers buy the ones they like, the rest of the dolphins get slaughtered, just because they didn't get picked. The slaughter happens in a cove, that is forbidden from the public. It is a restricted area, no one is allowed to see what happens there, like the people there know they are doing wrong, but don't want anyone to find out. In that cove, they slaughter about 23 000 dolphins every year, and they do it with spears, so no, it's not a painless and humane way to die. Although the local authorities say otherwise. The excuses for the slaughter are like "tradition" and "the dolphins are eating our fish" seriously? "Our fish?" Fish are a natural resource and part of nature, like the dolphins. Nature can't hurt nature. And there's no owning of fish.
To squeeze just a little bit more money from the dolphins, they sell the dolphin meat, which is toxic, by the way, because of the high levels of mercury in them (which is caused by pollution), the dolphin meat is sold so that most of the consumers don't know that it is from a dolphin. Oh and the dolphinariums aren't exactly safe haven for the dolphins either, those dolphin pools may appear big to the human eye, but for a dolphin they are not. They also get stressed from all the noise, and that leads to all kinds of symptoms, which of course is treated(the symptoms, not the cause of them) through heavily medicating the dolphins.
Here is another documentary film about selfishness of humans, it's called Earthlings Viewer discretion is advised, it is very graphical. Watching it raises questions: how the people who do this, do not see what they are doing? That they are inflicting pain and suffering to others, that those animals feel and are afraid. The horror is clearly visible in their eyes and that they are begging "please don't do this, I want to live, please don't kill me." How can humans be so evil and when does it stop? Why they do things like that to others, when it is clear that that's something no one wants go through, how come humans can't see that they themselves wouldn't want to be treated like that either? Why would someone treat someone else like that?
This is what humans do, for our easy way of living and consuming, other life forms have to pay the price. Humans are not assuming liability for their own actions so other life does. For humans to assume liability, everyone should assume liability for their own actions. Everything that is easy in one's life is making someone else's harder. May it be as simple as having a light on at night, animals in the nature don't get that. So where does it come from at the middle of the night? Electricity. That has come somewhere, where? From some fossil fuel power station? That burns stuff, that stuff has to come from somewhere. Transporting that stuff pollutes, burning that pollutes, mining it pollutes, making the equipment to all that pollutes, using that equipment pollutes, the fuel for that usage has come somewhere, getting that pollutes.
What about wind turbines or solar power? The turbines and solar panels have to be build from something, getting that pollutes, transporting the raw materials pollutes, making the components from the raw materials pollutes, assembling turbines and panels on location after transport, that pollutes too. Electric wiring has to be made too. The maintenance pollutes, making spare parts. The manpower used to do all this, demands food etc. which has to be bought, and that has to come somewhere too, usually from other forms of life: animals. The stores need to exist too, and everything in them: lights, registers, fridges. The money that is used needs to be printed somewhere, the printing equipment had to be made and needs maintenance. The money needs to be distributed. Digital money needs servers, bank cards, ATMs. All this and much more has to exist, so there can be light in the night. Or has it? What if the individual that needs the light, makes it for itself? What if every individual on the planet stopped taking things for granted and started assume some liability?
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