Reply #33: Humans just act with their own ingenuity.

[joshcryer]

I don't think that they consider themselves self-important so much. It's just that their intelligence has resulted in two things, first, the aggregation of technology and power, and second, the destruction of the individual.

We cannot destroy the ecosystem, we can only make the ecosystem inhospitable to ourselves. It's going to be around a long time after we are gone. But it does stand to reason that if we were wise creatures, and believed in egalitarianism, that we would indeed respect the environment in which we live. Simply on the basis of sharing things freely with one another.