Comment by [deleted] on 28/01/2020 at 01:04 UTC

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View submission: Reductio: if we consider merely affecting the environment to be morally wrong, we face the conclusion that our existence is evil. This indicates we have made a mistake...

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If beavers eradicated a certain species by building dams, couldn't that be "morally right" in the sense that a different species that was once hindered by the presence of the species that the beavers eradicated, can now prosper and grow in the eradicated specie's place?

Don't you get it? If you allow one species to live, you're preventing another species to emerge from its absence. That's how the circle of life works. Something has to die for something else to live.

Just because you save a species doesn't inherently mean you're doing the "right" thing. Because by doing so, you could be preventing other species to grow.

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