• PosadistInevitablity [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    These animals are just existing.

    Claiming we have a right to murder them for being in the wrong place is cruel - they have only spread there as a result of humanity.

    Do we have a right to eradicate humanity in turn?

          • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            It’s a moral consideration this isn’t a fucking logic problem.

            I don’t value ecosystems, but I do value animal lives. Unsure how I could be wrong about that on a moral level.

            If a pack of dogs was loose in a forest; I would not kill the dogs, for example.

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            Having the same moral value for a fire and living creature is wrong.

            You can do a million things other than kill them to fix the problem… but killing them is cheapest, so that’s what’s done.

        • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          I mean I’m not gonna kill myself because a few billionaires fucked the environment.

          I feel like blaming the whole human species for ecosystem collapse and climate change isn’t fair since we’ve existed for millennia, and the world was fine then.

          “The industrial revolution and its consequences”, not “the human species and its consequences”

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      It is crueler to let them destroy ecosystems they did not evolve in.

      And no one (who is a leftist) would argue to kill humans outside of Africa, because we can choose not to be invasive butts. We are because of capitalism. These things are because of instinct. There is no way these can reasonably fit into the system they are introduced to, without massive damage to the local system.

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        I see no reason to value the current ecosystem. It’s completely arbitrary.

        If we had tech capable of it, would we be obligated to restore past ecosystems? What if doing so destroyed the current ecosystem? At some point every species alive today displaced another.

        What makes the ecosystem as it exists right now especially valuable?

        In my view? Unlike ecosystems, animals are actually alive and can suffer. I choose to value their lives over an arbitrary relation of animals at a point in time called an ecosystem.

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      invasive humans also need to die sometimes, your ‘gotcha’ doesn’t work

      the “just existing” native habitat lanternfly isn’t being killed, only ones where the lanterflys are committing genocidal extinction of other species