Quote Originally Posted by Emerald Aeris
You're completely missing the point! You're taking the wrong part of the analogy and dissecting it to bits. The point is that you're justifying using the weak and unintelligent.
Yes, I am advocating the use of the weak, unintelligent, otherwise not particular useful things for whatever we desire. NOTHING can exist without exploiting something else. Humans use plants and animals, animals use plants and other animals, plants use the sun and dead animals, and the sun uses helium and hydrogen. Helium and hydrogen, however, just sit there and take it.
So, my question to you is simple: what makes us so different that we need to violate the working order of the universe itself, and make trouble for ourselves in the process? Not to mention damning at least a couple species of animal to near extinction in the process.
We certainly exploit minerals and such. We exploit energy sources. We exploit plantlife. We exploit animal life. We exploit human life... unless you're confused about what a JOB is. You work, I pay you, we both make money, we both eat. It's a voluntary form of exploitation for the exchange of goods and services. And until we all magically become super-beings, that's the way it will ALWAYS be... and even as whatever we become, we'll end up (if nothing else) exploiting the process of becoming such entities.