Why should we Save any animal?

Question

Before man was here animals live and died. Now that we are here the live and die, and yes alot is caused by us, but a law of nature is natural selection. If there was a million tigers one year and now their is only a thousand, is this bad? Why? There once was Wooly-mammoths but not any more, the world keep spining. Is it that we are just afriad of change in our world? It changes every moment, new animals are discovered, old one's die. People change, why can our world change too?
So if there were no tigers in the world what will happen? A new animal would have to take it's place in the food chain. maybe the reason why, there are so few, is because we fill the gaps when we kill other animals. I use tigers as just one example. I do mean Why should we save any animal outside of humans?

Answer 1

When systems lose diversity, then chaos ensues.

Mankind has the power to totally eliminate all forms of competition . . . other people as well as animals.

It is only wise to use this power responsibly and carefully to preserve the world's diverse environments that include animals.

Answer 2

While I agree that animals, in a natural setting and a natural state, live and die, I also would agree that man causes the animal kingdom to be thrown into shock!
Climatic and other changes, without the intervention of man, would naturally cause shifts in animal populations, and extinction of species. However, because of mans dominant use of every natural resource this planet has to offer, the animal kingdom suffers depredations that might not have occurred otherwise.
Look at it like this...there was a natural balance between predator and prey in the west before expansion and colonization. Ranchers, upset over losing profits to wolves hunted them to the point of extinction. The natural prey of the wolves, rabbits, and other small rodents, grew so rapidly and so vast that disease, which normally would have affected ONLY the animals, was suddenly affecting the human population as well.
This planet is a unique ecological balance of ALL species. when that balance is upset, then ALL species suffer the consequences. Why save the animals? To save ourselves. What difference would it make if there were no tigers/ I don't know....but sure as the sun rises, there will be one.

Answer 3

I would call this an example of "retroflection". A retroflection is where people do externally that which they would like done to themselves.

People who "save" animals are demonstrating that they too would like to be "saved".

I have no interest in saving animals. Death is a part of the life cycle. Each member of a species that dies, or each species that dies makes room for the next evolutionary stage.

Answer 4

You don't seem like you paid much attention in Biology class. Humans hunted Woolly Mammoths into extinction. Usually when a species becomes endangered, its because of humans. We're wiping out their natural habitat, so they have nothing to eat or land to roam. Its NOT natural selection, its human destruction. We're animals too.

Thankfully, in my religion we view all animals as equals. We have learnt so much from animals, its always important to add to our knowledge.

Answer 5

God told us to dominate the world. To rule it. But to rule in a good way. God gave us authority over something He owns. He owns the world and gave us the authority to be "landlords" of the earth. Therefore we are supposed to take care of every living thing and their homes too. Every living thing includes ourselves, animals, and plants. Their homes are forests, seas and the sky.

Answer 6

Because we are the reason some animals are headed for extinction. We are destroying their habitats and the environment. We are responsible for being stewards of this earth, and I believe part of that responsibility is caring for wildlife.

Answer 7

I tend to agree. Humans do have an impact thought, and what we do now know is how fragile life is, or how strong it is. In my opinions, humans are arrogant in thinking they we can destroy species. If humans go extinct, it will not be because we do it.

Answer 8

You know, I've never thought of that before. You really do have somewhat of a point.

Answer 9

We must save STUFF!!!.