11f Non Anthropocentric View

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11f  A Non Anthropocentric View - Update 24 Septr 2021.  Each one of us as a human naturally excludes all non-human things other than beloved pets from our caring point of view. For example, we take for granted that cows, pigs, fowl and other animals must be slaughtered or hunted without giving thought for each animal's conscious feeling. And the idea that our use of agriculture may sometime, somehow, be harmful to the plants would be a joke for most persons. And to extend it further, to worry about an inanimate thing like rock or soil or air – a class we might call Earth - seems to most people idiotic or insane.

But I think the culturally advanced human must at least treat this idea with respect even though she or he cannot carry it out without harm to some human. In the previously cited Ray Bradbury story, And the Moon be just as Bright, we see an example of the non-anthropocentric view in the character, Spender, who actually kills other humans because of it and we also see the attitude I am fostering, in Captain Wilder's understanding of Spender even if he cannot go over to help Spender and even if his duty forces him to hunt down Spender and personally kill him. I respect the non-anthropocentric viewpoint even while keeping respect of the needs of humans. As much as is possible in future, I believe, we should want to help other animals prolong and enrich each one's life, we should want to make an environment where each species, plant or animal, thrives and we should want to preserve the inanimate others - even the rocks - from the destructiveness of us human animals.

Allow sensible moderation but beautiful idealism to mutually bloom.

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