More than 50% of the species on earth went extinct because of humans. So are humans as a whole , evil?

You cannot make a comment saying that someone else is cutting those forests and destroying the soil. You still take the blame because you're part of humanity.

If an alien species invaded our planet and decided to study humans , they can ultimately conclude that we are evil just by looking at the amount of damage we did.

But do we feel evil? Are we evil? No we don't because we aren't trying to destroy other species out of pure hate. We do it because of our own selfish reasons - whether it be greed or progress .

So is evil justifiable if your intentions aren't evil in the first place?

Ultimately all of this poses a greater question. What is good and what is evil? How do you define them?

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Inherently we are born good, this stems from a our need to survive and reproduce successfully, our "over" developed sentience and curiosity encourages bad habits, such as why find one when I can take yours. These traits can be seen evolving in other species, like lions and monkeys. Just so happens we got to a greedy state first, social condition perpetuates greed from one generation to the next. Eventually it will indeed cause our extinction. Like other apex preditors.

Humans cull other creatures to reduce over population and devastation of other creatures and plants, to preserve the numbers, theres no one to cull us, we will devour the planet and become extinct, if not through war before that happens. The earth will start again.

99.999999% of all species that have ever lived have gone extinct before we even arrived!

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Ty for BA 🙂