Alexandria Griffith: Outside reading

 I have been reading an environmental ethics book by Gregory Bassham that covers central issues within the book. One chapter that really stood out to me was chapter 11 - wilderness preservation. The book goes on to show the positives and negatives in this case. The chapter talks about the anthropocentric view where it believes that the killing of an animal life is justified if it is to better the life of a human. The book also shares the other view of this claiming that it would not be jusitifed to kill an animal to benefit human life, this can be a biocentric view. The book talks about biocentrism and how that belief follows the guidelines in which everything holds the same value. So, us as humans would hold the same value as a cow. So the killing of a cow would not be justified to better humans since the cow life and human life would hold equal value. I personally disagree with this view. I do not believe that all life on earth is equal of values. I do not believe that a cow life is just as valuable as a human life. I believe that there must be scales, or levels in which help determine value. I believe that human life is them most valuable life and all other forms of life are below the life of a human. I do not think that means we should just take lives of animals just because but I do believe that in most cases it can be justified because of the ways it can better human life. I also believe that there are restrictions that need to be put in place/followed to prevent human life from abusing the life of other forms.

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