What is the logic of esteeming one animal species over another?

@Hypocrisy_Central Man once co-existed in the wild amongst the beasts as a hunter gatherer. Once man mastered the art of farming to provide extra nutrition the human population exploded. Animals just were left to fend for themselves until that moment they were hunted. Soon man domesticated animals and raised them for food and again the human population exploded more. Left unabated, man’s harvesting of the low hanging fruit in the animal kingdom started to take it’s toll and certain animal populations dwindled some even went extinct.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize animal populations need to be managed and protected so that animals don’t go extinct and on a more complicated level that animals populations remain at specific levels so there is balance amongst the other plant and animals populations that interact for each of their species survival.

Problem is man is the big impact amongst plant and animal populations. And it is up to man to respect and now manage our impact on the natural world that we exist in. We need to strike a balance on the animals we raise for food sources and the animals that need to have their space to survive in the wild on their own.

Killing an animals is instinctive when it is done for the sake of survival….mourning the death of an animal one chose to domesticate is just another spectrum of human nature. I admire how native Indians/eskimos etc….pray and honor the animals the harvest for their survival the rest of the world just pushes their carts through the meat department and bitch at the high price of beef.

There is no logic to it. Only emotion.

Tigers are endangered. Cows and chickens are not.

@Cruiser It doesn’t take a genius to realize animal populations need to be managed and protected so that animals don’t go extinct and on a more complicated level that animals populations remain at specific levels so there is balance amongst the other plant and animals populations that interact for each of their species survival.
Even if they need to be manage or protected, more off the actions of humans than anything else. If duckbill platterpusses go extinct what difference would that make to man, or if sea horses when that way as well, etc.?

None. All life is created equal, end of story.

The duckbill platterpusses are extinct, as it happens.

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That’s funny, the IUCN has them listed as “least concern”.

__Logically is there any animal that is above killing?__

Yes. Logically, all animals are above killing. Makes you wonder at the level of illogic involved with running the game.
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@Cruiser said, “__Man once co-existed in the wild amongst the beasts as a hunter gatherer. Once man mastered the art of farming to provide extra nutrition the human population exploded. “__

Apparently somewhere around this time-frame {appprox 10,000 years ago} is where the logic becomes completely erroneous and even slavery makes its debut. Before that man & women probably existed for another 30,000 to 40,000 years {I believe there’s evidence available to support this claim}.

It seems following the course of agrarian society /farmer/ranchers was a major catastrophe that most people still don’t understand.

Mice and squirrels in my attic are my enemies. When they threaten home an hearth they are done. They ruin the ceilings with their waste and chew wiring that can potentially set my house on fire.
I used to be kind but their numbers just got too big. They destroyed the song bird nests. I could not put out bird food as it would be taken in minutes. The feeders would be destroyed in days. That’s when I moved from a kid’s BB gun as a dissuader to the real deal. That was the only solution that worked.
The fox family and I make a great team. They can stay as long as they like.

My logic is Who needs Mosquitos and roaches?

Egyptians and other early civilizations tried to domesticate numerous animals for work, food or what good they might produce.

I am not sure what is domesticated now but cows pigs chickens seem to thrive universally all over the globe.

The extinction of other animals matter to us because they are usually part of an ecosystem, animals need food and predators to keep them in check. But since man values rarity certain things like ivory from walruses etc or say a bear skin and there becomes a market for these we are making our selves part of equation and we must right it.

Diversity is valued as it means with climate change etc some won’t adapt. Also we have learned much about humans through the study of animals… Even fish… Besides we are a lonely species. We want company. Our empathy exceeds our own species as happens with other species in animal kingdom. But more or less all life is valuable.

@Hypocrisy_Central To ask what impact would occur if duckbill platterpusses or sea horses go extinct is to ask the more ethereal question of what would the world be like if man, woman and child went extinct???

For ever species that goes extinct…their prey and predator will thusly survive…what impact would there be if man disappeared?

Platypuses, people.

@Cruiser To ask what impact would occur if duckbill platterpusses or sea horses go extinct is to ask the more ethereal question of what would the world be like if man, woman and child went extinct???
The world would not miss man at all, in fact it would be so much better off.

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@Hypocrisy_Central: Platypuses, please