Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "" video.

  1. Why should I care about people unknown to me? Just because they are members of the same species? That is not a reason for me. I have empathy for most other species of vertebrate and many invertebrate animals too. But progress of humanity also means in many ways death and torture of other animals. And the situation with biodiversity will worsen anyway, if humans grow their numbers and economic activity, no matter how "green" your technology is, it cannot be totally "green". For example, fossil fuels are the worst, but other sources of energy are also not that good: wind turbines cause deaths of many birds, dams on rivers worsen river ecology. And agriculture: we cannot live without it. But any kind of agriculture is bad for wild ecosystems. Any kind, without exception. So, no, I cannot choose between this species and whole other biosphere. Because all living creatures matter. Not only humans. I refuse to view other living creatures only as a resourse for human purposes. I realize that it is impossible to avoid all harm to other creatures, thus I realize that human progress has a huge downside. Maybe for someone else, lives of all those animals and other creatures dont matter. But for me they do. I love nature, I view myself as a part of biosphere, and all living creatures matter for me in one way or another. And I dont want to view humans unknown to me as more valuable than members of other species. In certain cases it is even the opposite: like death of my pet bird was bigger tragedy for me, than death of some people, and not only because of the emotional pain that it caused for me, but I really think that life of a bird is by itself as valuable as human life. Society cannot view it like that, due to practical reasons, but I personally can view it only like that.
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  2. +x 01 Well, it rrally depends on situation so much, and it is so hard to evaluate how certain change will affect humans and other creatures, and environment, that I usually feel like I cannot do that decision, that I dont have and cannot enough knowledge to evaluate such a situation and make such a hard choice. Of course, there are exceptions, situations, when it seems clear to me, what is definitely better or worse, and situations, in which I have to make a choice. But in most situations, I just cannot decide. I prefer to remain passive, but it is because I am not sure that those people, who are more active and who think, that they can always decide what change is doing more good than bad, are always right. More I learn, more it seems to me, than people too often overestimate their abilities to make informed decisions, and that overestimation makes a lot of problems
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