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 I would like to bring up our conversation regarding hierarchy. I feel that, as humans, we've developed to the point where we can survive by manipulating other living things-- we eat other animals, we kill bacteria and parasites to stay healthy, we radiate cancer cells. Other animals fight and do primarily for their survival. Why is it unethical for us but not for other species? We do have the ability to assign value and emotion to death and to life, whereas other living things do not. But, which is more important? Our survival or humanity towards the non-human? Is it immoral simply because we have the power of knowledge and the products of that knowledge-- the tools of technology?If we are all stardust and we will return to stardust, value of life is a social construct and hierarchy seems to be the luck of the draw. The more improbable the assembly, the higher up in the chain. Or so it seems.