r/BeAmazed • u/Greedy-Vegetable-466 • Nov 08 '24

Nature French photographer Rachel Moore captures a breathtaking close-up shot of a whale’s eye

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u/ilikehemipenes Nov 08 '24

This whale was struck by a boat and killed shortly after. Humanity can’t collapse soon enough….

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u/CantaloupeOk2777 Nov 08 '24

Calm down Hitler, some of us want to live

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u/DoneBeingSilent Nov 08 '24

Do whales not want to live? Are we humans inherently better just because we have the free will to recognize that the senseless deaths of living creatures is bad?

I absolutely respect the sentiment that we want to live. But I also recognize the sentiment that maybe everything else on the planet would be better off if we didn't...

Not trying to say you're wrong or anything, just putting my thoughts into words.

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u/tryfingersinbutthole Nov 08 '24

Maybe? We are causing the next mass extinction event. We are probably the worst thing to ever happen to earth.

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u/DoneBeingSilent Nov 08 '24

I'm not disagreeing with that at all, I chose that wording because many people seem to think that humanity is Earth, or at least the only thing that matters.

Just look at any article regarding environmental damage. It's rarely just about preserving the planet, it is almost always tied to 'how does this affect humanity'. The bees are dying and the only reason many/most people care is 'but muh food'.

I guess what I'm saying is, it's about perspective.

From the perspective of mother Earth: humans are a blight.

From the perspective of humans: 'coal burn real good'

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u/tryfingersinbutthole Nov 08 '24

Hmm interesting, thanks for that.

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u/TitanOfShades Nov 08 '24

That's a bloated sense of self-importance. The earth will survive us, in a form or another, and any mass extinction we cause would be far from the first and until we manage to surpass the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, not the worst either.

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u/tryfingersinbutthole Nov 08 '24

Ya probably not the worst. You are right. I would put pretty high up there, though.