Why should this be a big deal? Isn't it nature's way for animals to go extinct? Isn't that more or less what survival of the fittest is all about?
It's not nature's way for an entire species to be very suddenly and abruptly wiped out by human activity. And before anyone starts any pedantic quibbling or equivocation, it's quite common for people to define terms like "nature" or "natural" as exclusive of humans, human activities, human tendencies, etc. That's the way I'm using them, and it's clearly the way that markjo is using them.
As for "survival of the fittest," that's a misleading pseudo-scientific phrase that people really need to stop using.
There is not one, people just like to pretend that we are somehow special. Nope! Almost mindless killing machines when you come right down to it.
No. That is the exact opposite of how it works. What makes us special is our intelligence, and that's also what makes us so dangerous to the planet. If we were really mindless, we wouldn't be able to cause these problems in the first place.
So our intelligence makes what we do take place outside of nature? I understand perfectly how you and Markjo were using the term "natural", you are meaning it as being the opposite of "artificial", but it is precisely the wrong way to be using the term as pertains to the subject at hand, and it is not the sense I had in mind when I used the phrase "nature's way", which is how this thread of conversation started. So I'm sorry, but yes, you and Markjo are being pedantic, to the point of absurdity.
Either you ascribe abilities or tendencies to human beings that were given to them by something other than nature (in which case you are arguing in favor of the existence of a higher power), or you feel that everything we do as human beings is a result of the way we
naturally evolved, thus making our love of hunting a product of nature. I really don't see how there can be a gray area here, but if you think you can logically present one, by all means do so.