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[jesuiscontente]

For my philosophy final paper one part of it is reading another student's paper and writing a commentary essay on it. And I was reading this student's paper from a class a few years ago that we can do our paper on and I found it really interesting. So i'm gonna post it on here and I want your thoughts

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[asmodeuserrorme]

Interesting

[jesuiscontente]

wow ryan. Thanks for taking the time out to write a thoughtful response. That was exactly what I wanted. That gave me lots of ideas for my commentary paper. You make some really good, valid points. I think my philosophy teacher would be proud.

nice paper

[anonymous]

I agree somewhat with this paper but there is always another side to a debate with that "some species exercise widespread and even global influence," but what type of species would these be? The AIDS virus comes to mind and malaria is another. However, the same people who claim that we are in a delicate balance with other species in fact spend most of their time trying to preserve or save higher mammals rather than lowly parasites. Humans have slaughtered to extinction numerous species from the woolly mammoth to the saber toothed tiger, but these species had little impact on the ecology other than to extinguish a food source for humans. Large, lovable mammals as elephants, rhinoceros, whales, etc. have little impact on the ecology because they are at the top of the food chain-just like humans. If a new virus wiped out the human species, the ecology of the earth would chug along just fine, filling in the voids that we left behind. New creatures and plants would occupy the cities, and new plants would take over the once harvested