A human is worth more than hundred dogs

I am told that there is a popular experiment that reveals the emotional and intellectual maturity of a person.

They would first be approached with the question.

"Which weighs more. One humans life or the lives of a hundred dogs?" 

Apparently most adults over the age of nine concur that one human life is worth much more than the lives of a hundred dogs. 

Kids see it differently.

We accept that dogs are intelligent and sentient beings who feel pain and joy and jealousy. This does not stop us from choosing the one human life over a hundred dogs.

When poachers are apprehended killing Rhino or other rare species their defence is usually that  their families were starving and that they chose their families lives over the lives of a few animals.

If we are to accept that one human life is certainly worth more than a hundred dog's then one has to accept that the villager who fed his family with the proceeds of the Rhino horn was acting morally. The killing of the beautiful animal for its horn was, rightous.

I put it to you that this is not a  justifiable killing. 

Perhaps its time to take a fresh new look at the world around us and challenge some of the accepted wisdoms of the past.

Perhaps we need to accept that the biodiversity of the planet is more valuable than the life of an individual human. If we can turn this around perhaps we can find a way to co-exist with animals and plants on this planet and in the process give the planet a future that includes all of us.

𝓜 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓴

Jan 2022