• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    Trees don’t exist “for” us. Animals don’t exist “for” us. We are a cosmic accident.

    The second point being made has no relevance to the first point.

    The fact that they make our lives easier in a great variety of ways is incidental.

    It’s really not.

    Trees, like all plants, exist as a similar cosmic accident and their “purpose” is to continue their spread and growth.

    Incorrect, their purpose is to serve whatever needs we might have for them. That’s the sole reason they exist.

    I’m not going to stop using wood any time soon, but the way you’re trying to paint humans as like, the one true species or some shit, is fucking gross

    That’s evolution. That’s how we evolved, and that’s how we live, and that’s why we are not anthropomorphic cats or octopi.

    We allow these things to continue to exist because they are not harmful to us, and that they are useful to us. If they were not useful, they would cease to exist, and would’ve ceased to exist long before your suicidal morality came about. Until otherwise proven, the default is that things exist to serve us, the only part of the universe that can explore and understand itself. Anything less is suicide, anything more is ascribing natural evolution to God or the great spirit or or the oneness of everything other such childhood nonsense.

    We are the singular apex predator. There is no living thing in the known universe that has our kill count. We allow whatever to exist, not the other way around, and we evolved to that place in the chain.

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      Oh you’re gross gross. I see. Pity cause you’re otherwise a quality leftie. I won’t be talking to you anymore, but have a wonderful life and I hope you’ll reconsider your stance on this issue!

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      7 hours ago

      did you read the fuckin article? lol

      you need to change your name yo, what youre talking about is heirarchy. That humans are better than everything else, and anything else soley exsist to serve humans.

      Without humans, the trees and animals would still be here.

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        did you read the fuckin article? lol

        Yes, an unscientific puff piece about green washing being presented as a good thing despite it doing nothing of value. It’s the same thing as Target making a press release about rainbow children’s onesies or when the US government super duper promises to replant some of the trees they blow up.

        you need to change your name yo, what youre talking about is heirarchy. That humans are better than everything else, and anything else soley exsist to serve humans.

        Read On Authority by Engels sometime. Not only is the point of Marxism not the elimination of all Hierarchy, communism is in fact impossible without some hierarchies.

        Yes, everything exists to serve humans. This also means humans have the responsibility to continue the things that keep us alive. Saying ‘oh woo woo says we’re all equal and one’ takes all responsibility off of humanity. The same as this nonsense:

        Without humans, the trees and animals would still be here.

        Maybe, we can’t know that and it would be a pointless existence for them at that point. They exist so that we can exist, so we can keep them existing so we can continue to exist. The opposite is not true.

        Trees cannot take care of us. They are not the solution to climate change. They don’t sequester anywhere enough carbon for the amount we’re releasing. They’re too inefficient. And we’ve done too much damage. By showing we are able to end all life on Earth we show that not only is everything dependent on us, we have the sole responsibility of their survival as well.