In reading through various blogs, I found Car Emissions post the most interesting. I could definitely tell that he was speaking from a true place and provided the example about his Cockatoo to back up his position. His argument was strong and made me think about things in another way.
I had never necessarily reasoned that keeping animals in a zoo keeps them from being in danger of becoming extinct. Upon further thinking, I began to realize that maybe I had thought of that but then I immediately rode it off. Animals such as polar bears of koala bears feed into the argument of taking animals out of their natural habitat and putting them in to zoos for the greater good of the species. Therefore in some cases I believe that having animals in zoos most definitely serves a purpose.
Other animals however do not need to be in a zoo. Allowing an animal to live in its natural habit is more human than taking it and placing it elsewhere. Animals are part of the ecosystem of the food chain and when nature is interfered with my man (therefore in an unnatural manner) it throws off the balance. Nature should be allowed to exist and be carried out as it is intended, through natural selection and survival of the fittest. Interference by man complicates things and throws off the balance and the natural ways of nature.
Response to: http://parenethical.com/phil149win12/lecture-03prompt-03-relationship-of-ethics-and-environmental-ethics/
Response to: http://parenethical.com/phil149win12/lecture-03prompt-03-relationship-of-ethics-and-environmental-ethics/
Maintaining a species in a zoo really does not effect the natural selection process in the wild because unless you wish to reintroduce the species into a changed environment natural selection and evolution will continue to proceed regardless. Furthermore I feel as if it is almost impossible to reintroduce these animals in the wild because they have become adjusted to captivity. For example: once my dad found some orphaned baby bunnies and we nursed them back to health and when they were old enough we found we could not responsibly release them back into the wild. Animal rehabilitation specialists explained to us they had not learned the necessary survival skills (most importantly to fear larger animals and humans) and the only ethically responsible action was to find them homes as pets.
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