[Magrus]

Originally Posted by Lestat

Will society then afterwards, lock you up and condemn either to prison or not?
Would people who continue to do this stand a larger survival chance than those that organise themselves and have the behaviour between them regulated? I think not, basically because far more people live normal lives than people who go around murdering and robbing and when too large a portion of human society indulges in that type of behaviour it breaks down, of which I witnessed the aftermath. So that type of behaviour is in the end self destructive.

*nods* Most likely yes. Which, is what boggles my mind about the human viewpoint, which you have, that humans are superior BECAUSE they kill other species and take their natural habitats and make it their own. What society views as criminal and evil for one human to do to another is perfectly acceptable to do to another species. WHY? Why is that viewed as proof of superiority when acted upon another species, and evil when acted upon your same species? Why, when as you say "So that type of behaviour is in the end self destructive."

Magrus seems to judge superiority animals & humans a like by some kind of moral or ethical criterion. Which is bizarre since he himself said they will have another idea of right or wrong maybe wholy alien to us, and as for me I doubt that animals manifest any moral behaviour. In both cases applying "our" morals on their behaviour, to judge who is "superior" is in my opinion misguided, since you use something that is uniquely applicable to humans to judge other specieses.

Is it unique to humans? They undoubtably have varying ideas of what is "good" because they're goals in life vary. However, from everything I have encountered with other species, they all attain a balance with the other species with are native to their natural habitat. They don't breed in excessive numbers to the point it destroys the area around them and kills off their food sources as humans do. Whether or not that is a consicous thing is irrevalent I think.

They act on a basis that shows a common moral ground in which they take what they need and no less or no more. Humans seem devoid of that simple thought pattern. Whether it is instinct or a thought, I cannot say. I am not a cat, or a whale, or a bird. A sparrow can't ask me why my ancestors cut down the trees it's ancestors used to use as their homes, but perhaps that's what they are chirping when we walk by? Until I have proof of the contrary, that will be a possibility in my mind I will not rule out.