After much thought and consideration, the ecosystem is more than just how it impacts mankind, it should be protected and preserved for its sake.  The earth has been around for 4.5 billion years, while humankind has inhabited earth for only a few hundred thousand years.  This fact alone shows that the ecosystem has been around for a very long time before human beings and will be here much longer than we will be.  Therefore, we, like whom or whatever comes after us, inherited this world and it is our duty maintain it.  Additionally, we must consider all the millions of species of animals and plants that we share this ecosystem with.  Just in the last couple hundreds of years, plants and animals have suffered because of the damage we have done by polluting the earth.   Although, I’ve argued for ecocentric view, I believe that people should have an environmentally healthy combination of ecocentric and anthropocentric views.

Before reading this module, I thought that being a good person was basically synonymous with doing good acts.  Now, after reading this section and with more pondering on the subject, I believe that actually performing good acts is more important.  Whether you do good acts because you are a good and kind person or you have an ulterior motive, perhaps a selfish gain like, gaining popular public opinion, someone or something is benefiting from that good deed.  I believe that is the most important thing; as long as the act is a good one that betters the world, I am all for it.  Unfortunately, word “good” is vague and subjective enough that someone can see something to fit to their idea of good, yet be detrimental to many others.  An extreme but obvious example of this would be Adolf Hitler’s vision of a perfect race and nearly exterminating an entire ethnic group, in his mind was an act of good, yet was an act of genocide and was rightly stopped.

When it comes to life, I believe mine is worth the same as anyone else.  I feel this especially when it comes people being treated under the law.  But, I also believe in a societal view someone who is highly intelligent has the potential to solve many problems in the future for society.  Moreover, someone who excels in a certain trade or art form has more worth to people in society.  Both of these examples show how these peoples’ skills demonstrate how to society they may have a larger value, whether that be monetary or social.  I also feel that a murder, rapist, terrorist etc. are worth less as people strictly by the fact that they killed, severely harmed or traumatized other people.  The world we live in is not just black and white, there is a lot of grey area.  This question is an example of this blurry zone.