Quddus:
You\'re making it extraordinarily apparent that religion breeds arrogance in some. I\'m not going to generalize, because some other members holding the same beliefs as you completely disagree. But I\'ll make this blunt.
Animals are here for us to do as we please with them, correct? All living things are, correct? Alright. So why don\'t we just level the forests? Why don\'t we just demolish full ecosystems? They\'re our ecosystems, after all. Lets us leave a few million acres of rain forest a deserted wasteland; after all, it was our rain forest. We can do anything with it, right? ANWR. Lets just burn the whole forest, and slaughter the creatures there for fun. That sounds pretty good, doesn\'t it? And hey, we\'ll get some fuel out of it, so we can load it into our cars and fill the atmosphere with more smoke so we can kill some more birds. I mean, we can do whatever we want with these animals, right? Why don\'t we go and pour a few million gallons of clorox bleach into the Atlantic ocean? Sure, we might kill a few animals, but who cares, right? Those animals were put here for us, we can do what we want to them, correct?
And then we start having problems. Rain forests dead, land beneath them wasted, air growing thin from lack of oxygen; the temperature worldwide rapidly rising from too much carbon dioxide. Previously frozen water, rising above its normal level, flooding cities, leaving previously accessible locations inaccessible, to us anyhow. The world becoming progressively more uninhabitable, it eventually reaches a point at which it cannot sustain life. Or at least, to where it cannot sustain human life.
This, my friend, is what would happen if the planet was occupied by people like you. I know what your initial reaction will be, (no, no, I don\'t think it\'s good to kill animals and to destroy these things, I don\'t think we should do that.) but that\'s irrelevant. You see, when people believe that everything is theirs, that they can do what they want with anything and everything, they always wind up doing that. Because people always want a little more. And if they believe that they can do so, and get away with it, they do it. It\'s our nature.
Your belief system is dictating to you that you can indeed do anything you want with any organic thing on this earth. In believing these things were put here for us to do what we please with them, people think they can do what they please with them, and do so. And in continuously doing that, they eventually will deplete our environment to a point at which it can no longer sustain our life. As a result, humanity will cease to exist. Without oxygen being circulated into our atmosphere by the masses of plants, oxygen breathing organisms, like us, will be destroyed. Our water will be contaminated, our skies will be painted black. Because someone gave those to us, however, it doesn\'t matter.
We\'re like a child with a toy, going by what you say. While some of us take care of that toy because of what it is, a very precious possesion, others, such as you, abuse it. You toss it on the ground, you kick it. Unlike any toy, however, this toy sustains your life. When this toy no longer functions, neither you nor anyone else will be able to survive.
Even if these things were created for us, we can\'t just do what we want with them. No, we must take care of them. For if they\'re destroyed, us human beings "created in God\'s image" will be nothing more than a completed small paragraph in the text book of earth.
