What if we weren't at "the top of the food chain"?!
Answers: What if there was a more intelligent species on the planet, would they then have the right to eat us?
Not as it stands, no. I would expect them to cage us all our lives and feed me hormones and food enriched with my dead relatives. I'm sick of fresh air and wholesome natural food so would probably see it as a blessing, after all, if god didn't want me to be eaten I'm sure he would'nt have put the aliens here.
And have you seem those tenticles ? Surely they were meant to eat humans so I'm ok with it.
And because they are more intelligent than me and i cannto communicate with them, surely that gives me no rights what so ever.
Please do not interpret the panic, defication and struggle as I approach the stun gun as any sort of non-complience, i really am looking forward to an early death.
I do hope they do away with this natural procreation we put up with, i'm much rather an alien came around once a year and shove a syrienge full of a strangers seamen into our females, so much better.
No. they wouldnt have any right to eat us.
Just as we dont have a right to eat things below us on the food chain.
Very good question.
made me think. Doesnt happen all that often.
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There is no rights in nature, rights are made by humans to express that is right or wrong. Nature does not care one bit. If there is a more intelligent species on the planet it would be there personal choice if they would eat us.
It would be a good day, It wouldn't even have to be a more intelligent species. with the fat asses in the U.S.A, it wouldn't even need to be that fast.
the world is over flowing with humans. a few less wouldn't hurt
Well, I don't think that anyone has the right to eat animals...
Who's to say that because we have more intelligence and more power that we have to "right" to eat another living creature?
No one. that's who.
Nobody would argue that animals don't feel pain, fear or enjoyment. This gives them the basic right to be treated in ways that respect their own personal value, just as humans are. This includes the right to live, not to be slaughtered or treated unjustly.
And to those of you who say that nature "doesn't" care, she most certainly DOES.
Have you ever wondered how this planet is going to heal itself? It has time and time before our lifetimes, we're just getting better at beating it.
When planet Earth has been over populated before, in the past it has used plague and illness to clean itself up.
Think about it.
There are no rights in a survivalist model. If they had the means and they wanted to eat us, well, that's what would happen.
Don't get me wrong, I reject the speciesist idea that we are somehow biologically better than other animals.
That would be OK. They would pick off the slower and weaker first. The people like me that eat meat will be faster.
It would be just thinning the herd, taking out the weak. Us strong would repopulate and get back on top of the chain.
We're not. Humans are natural herbivores. Just examine the diets of our closest relatives- gorillas and chimps. Their diet is 955 plant based, and the remaining 5% is bugs and worms, not chickens, cows, and pigs. We have absolutely no characteristics in common with natural omnivores or herbivores. The only reason we are attracted to eating meat is because the dead animal parts have been processed and packaged attractively. The true carnivorous process- hearing the screams of an animal as we rip it apart and eat it, is repulsive to humans.
well i suppose we couldnt exactly tell them not to, right? i mean if i went out onto the African Savana and told a lion he doesnt have the right to eat me, hed laugh at me while licking my carcass clean.
There is no "right" when it comes to feeding. You either eat something or you don't.
Rights have nothing to do with it.
they would eat us
I guess so. But it seems a bit silly since we are the most intelligent. But you're right I really wouldn't want to be herded up and slaughtered like a cow.