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Do most people not care that some humans are making whole species extinct?

  • 20-09-2013 09:49PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭


    In 2011 Africa's black western Rhino was declared extinct now it looks like South Africa's Rhinos are coming close to extinction. Stuff like this makes me cringe when I hear people say that humans are better than animals ect. How can we claim to be "above" other animals when this goes on. Sorry for the rant but this is really annoying. Why do people think they have the right to kill other intelligent creatures?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    We are better than animals proofs in the fact they are dead and we are not

    and no i don't care in the lest Ireland wiped out anything vaguely threaten to us or our useful domesticated animals a long time ago a very good thing i believe


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Why oh why do these emotive titles have to be used? I'm sure plenty of people do care, but what are they supposed to do to stop it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    bizmark wrote: »
    We are better than animals proofs in the fact they are dead and we are not

    and no i don't care in the lest Ireland wiped out anything vaguely threaten to us or our useful domesticated animals a long time ago a very good thing i believe


    By definition then people who bacterial infections should bow down to their new masters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Why oh why do these emotive titles have to be used? I'm sure plenty of people do care, but what are they supposed to do to stop it?


    Because wiping out extinct species is emotive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Sorry about the Rhinos, I won't hunt them or any other endangered species in future.

    Happy now?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Sorry about the Rhinos, I won't hunt them or any other endangered species in future.

    Happy now?


    No!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭sok2005


    You should see what destruction humans cause to each other on a daily basis, it's not just confined to animals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Because wiping out extinct species is emotive.

    No its not its completely natural 99.9% of all species that where ever on earth are dead who gives a crap ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    There was millions of species that went extinct before we came around, and millions more will long after we are gone extinct ourselves. It's sad I know, but to use a cliche, that's life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Too busy with global warming and polar bears.
    No time for important matters like the Rain Forests or Rhino's.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    bizmark wrote: »
    No its not its completely natural 99.9% of all species that where ever on earth are dead who gives a crap ?


    Some idiots in China are taking ivory because it looks nice and as a result intelligent creatures are dying. It's not natural in the slightest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Jerrica


    99% of all life that's been on earth has become extinct, it happened before we'we around and long after us too. It's a huge shame that certain species become extinct, especially big beautiful animals like rhinos, but some spp. just aren't viable anymore, and there comes a time when you have to look at how much the investment put into keeping a spp. going is offset by letting natural events take their course.

    I'd be more concerned about key economical spp. like bees going into decline and the massive impact it's having on local ecology.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    bizmark wrote: »
    No its not its completely natural 99.9% of all species that where ever on earth are dead who gives a crap ?

    there's a difference between natural extinction and extinction caused directly by humans and their activities. The former is inevitable, the latter is inexcusable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    In the long run, even if we destroy and nuke everything, something, a virus or bacteria will survive. All species go instinct, and we will too, eventually.

    It's only when the sun goes Nova, that will be the ultimate sterilisation event.

    Have a great night!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    People care but the average joe and mary cant do anything when the endangered animals are on another continent and are being poached, mutilated etc,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    Should have eight them fvckin' tings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Some idiots in China are taking ivory because it looks nice and as a result intelligent creatures are dying. It's not natural in the slightest.

    Well ya it is natural its just a superior hunter species using a prey animal for resources

    Thats life i personal dont agree with killing them for the sake of it though and ivory would seem to be something you could substitute with a man made material but id be lieing if i said im going to lose sleep over it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭Dante


    Nuke the whales


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Hyper-consumerism is literally consuming the very planet we're on.

    Personally, I think the trajectory we're on won't change until we have a mass extinction event.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Gotta nuke somethin'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Gotta nuke somethin'.

    The french !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Gotta nuke somethin'.

    I was thinking more along the lines of a massive volcanic eruption blocking the sun for a couple of years, a vicious airborne virus, or passing thru a cosmic dust cloud or something.

    Natural like.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I try not to care about things that I cannot change. The rhinos are going extinct because of evolution. If it's meant to be, then let it happen. We kill more cows and chickens than rhinos and they seem to survive. It's the rhinos own fault for not preparing for this. Lazy feckers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    lahalane wrote: »
    The rhinos are going extinct because of evolution.

    oh please do explain that one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Do most people not care that some humans are making whole species extinct?

    It's them or us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,611 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    agent smith said it best....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    oh please do explain that one.

    Perhaps if a species doesn't adapt to the new prime species on the block then they have reached a natural dead end of their evolution it will naturally either be displaced or wiped out in favour of the prime species or in the case of humans something more useful to them farmland/domesticated animals etc

    Dogs have done it amazingly well they will survive as long as we are around cause they are useful to us in many difference ways they have adapted to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    agent smith said it best....


    Made all the more ridiculous when you get to see what the robotic civilization had done with earth:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    lahalane wrote: »
    I try not to care about things that I cannot change. The rhinos are going extinct because of evolution. If it's meant to be, then let it happen. We kill more cows and chickens than rhinos and they seem to survive. It's the rhinos own fault for not preparing for this. Lazy feckers.

    The stupidity of this post gave me brain cancer


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭19543261


    bizmark wrote: »
    Perhaps if a species doesn't adapt to the new prime species on the block then they have reached a natural dead end of their evolution it ..blahblahblah

    Oh yes, good point, let's wipe every single animal off the face of the planet.

    After all, unless they grow bulletproof skin or dont devlope guns sticking out of their forehead, they deserve to be lost to our greed and unnecessary slaughter!


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