Grizzly bear kills guide just outside Yellowstone National Park

[LanternWaste]

64. As a life-long camper and hiker I wholly agree...

I can do nothing but agree with your position. We're the rational species meaning we should accept that animals will act like animals and will as often as not, act on instinct alone. Because they're animals.

As rational humans, we have a responsibility to realize this.

As we further reduce the remaining natural lands, it then becomes wholly our responsibility to be aware of the immediate consequences of these ever-decreasing ecosystems, and respond to these consequences of this reduction in a rational manner.

As ethical humans, we have a responsibility to realize this as well.

James Brabazon wrote "Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. This is something that we share with everything else that lives, from elephants to blades of grass—and, of course, every human being. So we are brothers and sisters to all living things, and owe to all of them the same care and respect, that we wish for ourselves."