Humans are no better than any other animal (correct me if you think otherwise), as animals we survived. Sure we had high death rates and poor living conditions overall but thats entirely irrelevant, as animals we continued to reproduce and were part of the food chain and natural cycle.
Though we do strive always to create better living environments and promote a 'better' or more comfortable life for all. If you only measure the differences in survival and foodchain, then you miss out all the other differences that come with being a human compared to another animal. We are still a part of the food chain, just further up the top.
If such an existence is good enough for every other animal, why have we suddenly taken it upon ourselves that we deserve better? Throwing out just about every natural cycle and disrupting the harmonic existence of like just about every ecosystem in the meantime?
Why do you doubt that what we are doing is out of the natural cycle? We look at our environment and utilise it, just like every other animal. Its just that we are more intelligent, and use tools to a greater extent to any other animal.
We stuff our ecosystems because we have evolved too well. Think of an ocean ecosystem. If there is too much nitrogen in the water, algae blooms appear. The algae eat up all the oxygen and suffocate the rest of the ecosystem. Its all a part of a balance. We as humans have overturned this balance as well.
Though this is irrelevant, as you are only focusing on humans as a race, not the individual's wellbeing. 'Fine' might mean that it is possible to survive, but then is it an equal existence? Are there people who take advantage of other people? So I dont think the humans doing 'fine' without human rights was a good thing.
Lol... But thats the thing, I do care if something happens to others in my species, even those I will probably never meet or have anything to do with (eg. people dying in Africa). Why do I? Why should I?
Sure some other animals may display some degree of loyalty to their family pack or species etc, but its nothing like the innate compassion most humans experience towards each other.
"Nothing like"? You contradicted yourself in that paragraph, where first you said that other animals display loyalty, surely it is
something like what humans display for each other, even though it wouldnt be to that degree.
Then comes the question to whether compassion is innate. I'm not going to pretend i know the answer to that, but we cant just assume that anything is innate. There is a possibility, but there really is no way to know (yet).
If compassion was innate, then why do the atrocities that have happened in the past/are happening today happen?
If compassion was innate, why do you you feel the way you do towards homosexuals?
Could you please just try something for me? Put all your religious beliefs aside, have a completely open mind. Put yourself in the shoes of a homosexual. Think about what it is like to be an outsider, think of the trials you now have to go through, think about the fear that stalks you where ever you go, think about how much what people say hurts you-like homosexuality is unnatural, or that you are unnatural, or they dont like you because you are homosexual.
You only get as much out of that as you allow yourself, though i hope it did affect you in some way.