This one time, at band camp...

Recently philosophical debates have become increasingly more apparent in the day to day conversation of my group of friends, more often than not after a few drinks, but they are nevertheless interesting, to me at least. The most recent of which involving our opinions about how the nature of the world works resulted in something interesting for me to write. For once.

My general point of view, one which led to much disagreement from the others, is based around the idea that we, as humans, should have as little involvement in the way nature ‘takes its course’. Basically, I believe that if an animal is close to extinction, we should not intervene by taking it out of the wild for it to reproduce under safe conditions. It is often the case that any intervention can be disrupted by the general nature of humans, in the sense that one would sooner save an endangered Panda, than something a bit less ‘cuddly’. Perhaps endangered poisonous snakes for example. The same goes for the containment of animals in zoos, which essentially tames them. The animals are often then completely unable to be integrated back into the wild, and, in the event of them giving birth, their offspring grow up in a surrounding vastly different to the wild in which they should be growing up. In my opinion, the less humans get involved in the goings on of our natural world the better.

-Scotty