How should we treat other human beings, animals, all life on earth, and the environment?

Question

How should we treat other human beings, animals, all life on earth, and the total environment?

How should we treatment other human beings, animals, all life on earth, as well as the total environment of the earth?

What is responsible treatment of other human beings, animals, all creatures of the earth, all life including plants, and the general environment of the earth?

*How should we treat other human beings?

*How should we treat animals?

*How should we treat all life?

*How should we treat the total environment of the earth?

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Especially with the advent of the machine age this question is more pressing. Is it ok to torture and/or kill other humans or animals? Is it ok to pollute the earth?

Please explain for the benefit of all peoples and nations. This has been an issue throughout the history of mankind. What is responsible human behavior?

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I asked this question after contemplating man's irresponsible behavior at time throughout history.

Are we as humans ready to act more responsibly?

Answer 1

We need to treat them all as part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Animals are no different than humans accept for their body and intelligence differs. The earth is the mother of mankind and the servant of God. We should respect her and not exploit her energies. All vegetation should be offered to God when prepared. What every we do we should take much consideration as to how to treat each living entity. If i accidentally squish a bug i should immediately chant Gods names to the soul of that bug and it will benefit (Such as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, Rama, Etc.) We should treat all nations as equals (Friends) and as Gods children. We should never kill unnecessarily. Only to protect oneself or others and by the law. Never exploiting anyone. Then we can be happy. World Peace.

Answer 2

Very simple. Just treat every thing around as a part of ourselves, the way we treat our hands, legs, eyes, etc. Then we would need no ethics at all to tell us what is right & wrong.
The best religious teachers try to get people to experience this from within, and then such people would become loving beings, with love as a quality of their very being ! Actions would simply flow out of such people according to the need of the situation (note, that our left hand promptly reaches to scratch the itch due to some mosquito bite on the right hand, without even waiting for our mind's permission, signal, command or what ever! We might be talking, busy working or even sleeping!)

Answer 3

Geez,what a question...It's very hard to reach a single conclusion on this matter because you can view it through different perspectives. For instance,you can say that torturing animals is against the animals' rights but,philosophically,animals have no rights whatsoever because they have no duties. But in simple terms of right and wrong,it's wrong - which means that we would have to all become vegetarians (and maybe vegans) to end the torture animals suffer so meat can be produced. On the other hand,you can consider that animals have always been part of our nutrition so it would be pointless to give it up now - argument that could be fought back by saying that back in the past,there was no conscience of animals' suffering and so people didn't care (or didn't have a choice) but,now, people are aware of what animals go through so that we can eat meat,so there's no excuse. My point is you can adopt different perspectives depending on what your interest may be - and there's always a valid argument. The same about environment and other human beings: you'll treat them according to your own interest because,in the end,personal interest is what prevails. If you adopt Kant perspective,though,you'll treat everything and everybody with respect because he said: find a rule for yourself that all others could guide themselves by.

Answer 4

We should all care about the Earth, religious or not, especially since it's the only one we've got! God gave us this magnificent planet that is perfectly self sustaining and self renewing, yet mankind has managed to screw it up with greed, pollution and apathy. Mankind has done the same thing with our food and fresh water supplies, but that's another diatribe :0) I'm not even going to touch the rest of your rant, especially since it's practically incomprehensible. But yes, my religion makes a real effort to conserve paper products, recycle and try to prevent as much pollution as possible. We do this because we love the gift we have been given in the Earth, and want to keep it as nice as possible. If the degeneration and ruination of the Earth ail you, keep in mind the scripture that "God will bring to ruin those ruining the Earth."

Answer 5

*How should we treat other human beings?
It is not enough to treat them how we wish to be treated we should treat them how we think they wish to be treated. Then there is that whole roll-playing bit too. Like if you’re a dad you have to act the dad, if you’re the boss you have to act the boss, if you’re the employee you have to act the employee. I guess you can say that we treat people based on their wellbeing, the collative wellbeing, and any other group or individuals with invested interests wellbeing, as skewed by various responsibilities, in relation to our goal.

*How should we treat animals? 


Animals deserve moral consideration. Just less so then us. If only because we have more potential to do good then them.

*How should we treat all life? 


with empathy


*How should we treat the total environment of the earth?
like a glass garden

Answer 6

They deserve to be treated with utmost care and respect. All creatures here on earth deserves to live as what the Mother Nature requires them to be. Absence from the requisites Mother Nature calls for is against the Law. Law of Nature must be followed for it is the highest form of Law.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 7

When we are children we should be destructive, this is the nature of mankind, we shouldn't care about people or the Earth, but as you live and go through life's painful lessons, you should be growing spiritually, for only a spiritual persons can >truly< care for one another and the envirornment. Spiritual enlightenment is the beginning of all things good.

Answer 8

I quit eating meat after watching a peta video, called Meet Your Meat. I was horrified to learn what kind of torture the meat I was eating had to go thru befor it was called meat. Animals laying there screaming and crying in pain as it had blood squirting from it's neck. The golden rule is old, tried and true. Unfortunatly it is not taught and modeled often enough. We as a society have become so barbaric and unfeeling, so unkind that we call it "normal". I can only hope that with the next evolution, our species wont de-evolve as quickly as this one did. KINDNESS IS KING !!!

Answer 9

it think there is no concrete answer to your question, because every individual lives a different life, a different situation such as the ones established by the society or by nature itself. due to these facts and since every individual cannot do away with their influences brought about by these factors lead hi/her to treat others or everything around him/her differently.

Answer 10

my philosophy is to treat all living creatures as i would want to be treated...even though an animal may not be able to reciprocate.(although some can such as dogs, cats etc) you should still be considerate of their feelings...not to inflict pain or suffering on them...feed them when you can...the environment will evolve to take care of itself however it deems necessary to survive mans destruction...we are destroying ourselves