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Are human lives more valuable or of more worth than those of other species?

Are humans more valuable than other species?


  • Total voters
    27

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
Yes, all the animal experts who have commented on the situation said that Harambe was displaying protective behavior. He saw the panicking and screaming crowd of people as a threat, so he was trying to get the child away from them.
Do you mean YES gorilla is dangerous animal ?


Yes, and so are you.
Sorry, I disagree, I am human,apes are animal


A
ll humans are apes, just as all dogs are canids and all cats are felids. Doesn't matter what you personally want to think. Reality is reality.
Not again!

apes are apes , and human are human and cats are cats ...etc


Whales and dolphins are probably more intelligent than humans. Humans aren't that great, and science is showing more and more that other animals are far more intelligent than we like to generally think.
This is weird so why it could not exit from water to land !
 

Acim

Revelation all the time
Duplicate post....nothing to see here folks...move ahead to the next exhibit. Stay within the barricades please.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
I disagree Gorilla is dangerous animal,especial male one.

This will make you a little confusion

I do believe that God created a similaire to human being before actual human.
I'll continue to go with what science says on both of these questions. I don't care what you think your deity - which I don't believe in - did, either.
 

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
I'll continue to go with what science says on both of these questions. I don't care what you think your deity - which I don't believe in - did, either.
I did not ask you to care!

Yes I do believe there was a creature similaire to humans before human being .

We are just exchange opinions here, we seems that we disagree with
 

Pudding

Well-Known Member
To clarify, i'll say my stance is that the lifes of the kid and gorilla are both equally worth/valuable/important.
It's wrong to said the kid's life is more important than the gorilla's life.
It's also wrong to said the gorilla's life is more important than the kid's life.

The kid fell into the cage, the zoo keeper conclude the kid's life is under threatening by the gorilla, to save the kid they conclude they have to put down the gorilla.
Whether the zoo keeper's judgement and the method to save the kid is right or not is to be debatable.
 

Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
To clarify, i'll say my stance is that the lifes of the kid and gorilla are both equally worth/valuable/important.
It's wrong to said the kid's life is more important than the gorilla's life.
It's also wrong to said the gorilla's life is more important than the kid's life.

The kid fell into the cage, the zoo keeper conclude the kid's life is under threatening by the gorilla, to save the kid they conclude they have to put down the gorilla.
Whether the zoo keeper's judgement and the method to save the kid is right or not is to be debatable.
I do agree , depend the situation of dangerous .
 

Pudding

Well-Known Member
I've seen the footage and I know that the gorilla wasn't threatening the child and wildlife experts, including scientists, agree. Chimps are actually far more violent and aggressive than gorillas (and humans are more alike chimps than we are alike gorillas, unfortunately for the planet). Care to try and fail again?
I admit i may be wrong and have making a reckless judgement about that, i'll be more careful from now.
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
That one child's life was more valuable than all the Silver Back Gorillas that are walking the earth combined. You can let your heart bleed for the gorilla all you want but you would never be able to justify allowing the animal to kill the child under any circumstance...

I could not disagree more.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Typical speciest bs. Do you value biodiversity on the planet? Do you think it's okay that gorillas are about to disappear from the planet thanks to the actions of humans? There's about 7.5 billion humans but less than 200,000 gorillas of all subspecies. We're not endangered.



http://www.alternet.org/environment/rip-harambe

I have absolutely no problem with the extinction of any species on this planet. The disappearance of Silver Back Gorillas, Kangeroo Rats, Snail Darters, or any other species you care to name will not affect or change my life in any noticeable degree. Species appear and disappear every day and yet we humans still breath, eat, and tilt at windmills.
 

Smart_Guy

...
Premium Member
In reply directly to the title:

Yes, humans' are! That however does not mean animals' lives have no value.

To be honest, I think some posts are really disturbing, at least the way they are put. I'm getting the impression if I'm dying by the walk side and a dog is dying right next to me and there is only a chance to help one, some people would help the dog instead (even if they didn't know I'm a Middle Eastern Muslim, haha... err... ehhm). You need to understand that there are always priorities in life. Also, I know subjective thinking affected those disturbing posts, and those "could" have their own rules. But to generalize that a human's life is not more valuable, like in the poll, I believe is really disturbing and inhumane in at least actual practice.

As for the gorilla talk:

I did not follow the whole thing, so I'm not just gonna give a judgement. But if there was a risk, even if so very slim, that the child's life was in danger, then it is good they took the shot. This is not a PG11 Disney movie or cartoon of some sort, this is real life. I don't really completely agree with the shot for now, but I don't blame them for it too. How would you feel at that moment if it was your child?
 
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Godobeyer

the word "Islam" means "submission" to God
Premium Member
dog instead (even if they didn't know I'm a Middle Eastern Muslim, haha... err... ehhm)
I affraid that they just finish you instead;the cause "mercy died" :p

I remember the hadith of woman capture a cat and not feed her so she (cat) die, so God punish her (woman) by hell.

EDITED to correct:
I remember the hadith when whore found a dog thursty to death,so she gave him water drink .so God award her by paradise.
 
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