Planned extinction: Is it ethical to deliberately wipe out a species?

[Troll_Whisperer]

Lafiel said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

It is ethically 100% OK in my eyes. Survival of the fittest.

Other species have developed different techniques to survive. Teeth, claws, whatever. Humans have tools and collaboration. It's also OK for us to secure our survival.

And by the way, humans are the only species that has developed empathy... even towards other species. Those mosquitoes wouldn't hesitate for a secod to kill us all if that meant more mosquitoes.

Now, species that we kill "by accident" and where doing so doesn't benefit us in any way, I can have issues with.

doubtful

ofcourse we have dogs and dolphins that show behaviour similar to empathy, even for humans (a different species)

and then there also are reports of hunchback whales saving a lonely gray whale calf from a group of orcas and a hunchback whale swimming on it's back and balancing a seal with it's belly/fin for 30 minutes to shield it from an orca attack

That's sympathy, not empathy. And it's more instinctive.