• KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      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.