Comment Re:What's wrong with you? (Score 1) 827
"What gives us (in fact, not really "us" at all, just some techno-hubristic-weeny branch of humanity) the right to destroy it?"
There is no such thing as not having the right to do something that you are capable of. The power to do something is the same as the right to do it. What we have the right to do is dictated by the most powerful.
If you believe in creation and all that, then think on this: If there is a god, what gave he/she/it/whatever the right to create the universe? The fact that god has the power to do so gave god the right. What gave god the right to create man? What gave god the right to tell us what is right and wrong? What gave god the right to do anything? The fact that god has the power to do it is what gave it the right.
Now, to answer your question on what gives man the right to do as he pleases. If man has the power to do it, then he has the right.
There is no such thing as not having the right to do something that you are capable of. The power to do something is the same as the right to do it. What we have the right to do is dictated by the most powerful.
If you believe in creation and all that, then think on this: If there is a god, what gave he/she/it/whatever the right to create the universe? The fact that god has the power to do so gave god the right. What gave god the right to create man? What gave god the right to tell us what is right and wrong? What gave god the right to do anything? The fact that god has the power to do it is what gave it the right.
Now, to answer your question on what gives man the right to do as he pleases. If man has the power to do it, then he has the right.
