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No, you are not. Just stop touching things and all is good.
And when you see an animal suffering and in need you just keep walking and pay it no mind?
Yeah. First rule in nature-related professions is generally to not touch. Careless touching can get the animal to be outcast or you to spread a sickness. And in the end, it's only to satisfy human kind instinct or morals anyway.
But "touching" was meant metaphorically. Our understanding of the larger picture in nature is only starting to surface. And general consciousness is still far behind the influence we have on the world as a species.
We have already created a garden world in europe (because it's the old continent) and have done a lot of damage in the process, the last few millennia, including "good practice" of managing woods creating only problems.
In short: do not touch nature, unless you know exactly what you do. And we especially don't need to "manage" it.
Ah, this helps put into perspective why the West is so cooked and we're sleepwalking into WWIII, lack of empathy and total apathy. I guess this is what we deserve.
A good thing is to learn to differentiate between 'emotional/gut reactions' and 'empathy'. A simple example can help: who do you think is the most helpful person (aka, showing empathy) in that hypothetical situation: two witnesses faced with a tragic car accident involving a little kid being badly hurt.
Are you being serious?
The comment you just replied to is one of of the most well grounded and sound I've read in way too long. Your... 'reaction' to it only demonstrates how badly we need to hear it a lot more often. A lot.
Also, a warm 'hello' from the West, wherever you living your perfect and faultless existence.
Ha, certainly I was being a bit hyperbolic. Still, I will help any animal wounded and not actively being pursued by a predator. You can denigrate me for that if you'd like, but I can't stand to see any life suffer.
I'm not the one telling people they're bad persons because they show no sign of what you call 'empathy' and then explain it was just 'being a bit hyperbolic'.
Have a nice day.
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Wholly beside the point.
Not really. It's all human nature. Some have empathy and others don't.
Which is beside my point. And acting on empathy while creating damage is egoistic.
Damage by your standard. Saving a life by mine.
If you know what you do. Which is great. But my point is; we, generally as a species and in nature the last few centuries, we did not. And still touched.