Tiger in a suitcase

[kath3]

The money part is definitely big, but our attitude towards animals is the ultimate culprid. We view animals as expendables. It's our prejudices that allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves which should and must include animals. Also our arrogance, separating us from other speices, thinking that we are superior and more worthy of the right to life. In our arrogance we gave this false right to ourselves to think that we are above other species ... just because we can subdue other species doesn't mean we should.
Educating ourselves is the only way animals will have a fighting and fair chance.

i have to agree that we're arrogant in regards to other animals. but for me it's the greed we're capable of that really enforces that arrogance.

and for me, it's our arrogance that produces and nurtures greediness. If we had true (and I can't emphasize the word enough) respect for all living creatures then money wouldn't even be a part of it.

their is one more way and it's a much more likely scenario; wiping ourselves out, even soylent greening ourselves. pretty soon we'll be at the tipping point of homo sapien extinction if we don't come up with some way to co exist with everything else on the planet.

I feel we have become too separate "spiritually" from this planet to save ourselves. I'm not talking about God, but an indepth connection that only can be attained from a higher level of thinking and preceiving ... wholly attuned, that I myself struggle to grasp/hold onto. We have to ... must become selfless. I'm not so sure we are capable of that.
I kinda think/feel that we're hooped.