4) I have very anthropocentric views, so I do believe that ecosystems are important in the ways they impact humans. Although I wish I could see natural ecosystems as important stand-alone entities, whenever I think about them I just see them as pools of resources that humans can benefit from. I do not believe we should decimate every ecosystem for its resources. I consider humans taking resources from ecosystems as the circle of life. We take trees so we can build shelter and survive, and we hunt animals so we can nourish ourselves. The organisms in these ecosystems do the same thing just on a lower peg in the food chain. Without taking resources for ourselves we wouldn’t exist. When we study natural ecosystems, all we are really doing is seeing how all the organisms present, perform different functions that make this planet livable for us. For example, we studied plants and found they produce the oxygen we need to breathe and carry out basic bodily functions. I am sorry if some nature enthusiasts disagree with my options, but in my mind the primal reason why keep natural ecosystems intact is because they can provide us with priceless resources.

5) I believe the pain and pleasure of non-human animals do matter. So in most scenarios animal and human rights should be equal. At the same time I do support killing these animals so I can survive. I will never support the inhumane mutilation of animals for fun (i.e. dog fighting). When taking an animals life I feel humans should take the quickest and hopefully least painful method, so aiming for the head and not the leg so the animal can die in agony. This again goes back to the circle of life, I kill an animal to survive, and that animal killed something else to survive and so on. The only way for life to exist and flourish is to take other lives. This may seem like a circular belief, but it makes sense. I believe when an animal is taken out of its natural habit and domesticated, it deserves to be treated fairly. The domestication of an animal puts the well-being of that animal in the hands of the humans.

6) Of all six questions I feel most passionate about this one. Every person’s life is worth the same, in my eyes the answer is so clear cut it shouldn’t be a big ethical question. Classifying the worth of somebody’s life by the color of their skins, what god they believe in, how they are sexually orientated, and so on is just outrageous to me. How can one person feel that they are so much better than someone else that they get to choose who is better. If anyone does feel different, I ask you this: What about yourself makes you superior to everyone else? I am a very altruistic person, I feel you should try just as hard to help someone else as you try to help yourself, because when you are in need of someone you are going to wish they feel the same way. We all want to be happy and successful why can’t we work together to make it happen?