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Baltar: I think humans will always cause some damage to the environment no matter how hard we try to reduce it, simply because we can't live "within" nature as other animals do.
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I would not uniformly call everything that people do to the environment "damage". Some things, maybe, but ultimately not everything.
Come to think of it, when a bird eats an insect, is it causing "damage" to the environment? Or, when a snake eats that bird's egg, is that "damage"? If not, is it "damage" when the egg is eaten by a human being? I see three possible answers:
1. This is not "damage". There are no ethical arguments against eating animal food.
2. This is "damage". Eating animal food is bad.
3. This might or might not be "damage" depending on the circumstances. Thus, sometimes eating animal food is OK and sometimes it is bad.
I happen to think that the answer to the question is 1 and that eating animal food is OK. It looks like a lot of people here would disagree. I am curious to know what their logic would be. Anyone?