Many would like to deny human sovereignty, especially over the earth. “Humans don’t deserve rule over the earth. All they do is exploit it and ruin it.”
This cannot be denied. For example, there have been five periods of time in which mass numbers of species disappeared from the earth, and we are living in one of those times, caused by human mismanagement.
However, that idea only proves that humanity IS ultimately in charge of the earth. If humans can cause such mass extinction, it means that humans are the determining factor.
The fact that humans are sovereign has nothing to do with the fact that they are moral in being sovereign. And the environmental movement and animal rights groups are just more proof of human rule over animals. No one considers themselves the equal of animals, otherwise we would not use moral reasoning with each other to change our actions. We all recognize not only that we rule, but that there are principles by which we should rule.
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