Deep Ecology

Is anthropocentrism only the belief that Humans are more important than all other life, or is it also anthropocentric if you believe that Humans are equally as important as other life instead of inferior? Is respecting Human existence really the same thing as supporting the exploitation and destruction of the rest of life on Earth? If it is really so arrogant to regard Humans as being equals with other animals instead of evolution’s worst mistake that deserve to be wiped out by a second holocaust, then so be it.

Nothing can be more important to fight for than this. It’s time to end this fucking misery now. Revenge for the tortured and dead.

We depend equally on society and nature. For example: A war can kill many people (war is social), or an earthquake can kill as many people (earthquake is natural).. Nature gives us food but without society and money we cannot get it..Society puts order in life and that is what sets us apart from animals (they also depend on society and ecology)…The writing system (is not natural bu social) is what separates history and prehistory..So how can we give more importance to physics, maths chemistry, biology…Isn’t social science as important? Chemistry can help us to find a cure for a disease and be useful for the humankind, but sociology, economy can also be very useful for the humankind..

we control deer populations through hunting. why not encourage human birth rate reduction through every form of contraception possible even in third world countries. fetuses don’t feel pain or emotions even on a nonhuman scale like animals. why is abortion wrong? why is any form of contraception wrong?

i’m not asking for anyone to kill themselves or someone else, but isn’t all the starving people in the world even here in america proof that priorities aren’t in exact order to take care of someone else? why do pople think more mouths to feed is a good thing especially in the financial crisis we’re in. doesn’t more people mean lesss forests and less undeveloped land?

why does anthropocentrism supersede biocentrism?

I would contend that it does. The concept of common ancestry shows that we have a kinship with all other life on Earth, since our genes are also to be found in species that we, in our arrogant and ignorant anthropocentrism, might regard as being "lesser" animals. So this shows that the theist’s notion that we were specially and separately created by a benevolent deity is basically nonsense. Of course, the theist may still claim that evolution was simply God’s method of creation (though isn’t this itself a very problematic idea when you muse over it?), but common ancestry at least still demonstrates that we aren’t a separate and special species in the eyes of God.

But to me, evolution as a process simply has to signify that there was no benevolent creator at work. It is a process red in tooth and claw, after all. It is essentially goalless, and I find the idea that it was God’s method of creation very perturbing. In his infinite wisdom and omnipotence, He could have used a better, more humane method. Ergo, evolutionary theory demonstrates God’s non-existence.

People might say that they still "believe" against all the odds, but to me that’s like believing that Elvis is working at Wendy’s.