Euthanasia on Pandas?

Source:
Asiaone
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Guess what, mankind wants to play God once again. Or rather God's accountant as what British TV naturalist Chris Peckham had replied when he was criticised when he spouted the following line

'So maybe if we took all the cash we spend on pandas and just bought rainforests with it, we might be doing a better job.'

Alright I love grasses more than I love humans. But does that mean I want all humans exterminated so that grasses will have a chance of survival for not being trampled by humans/animals/any land-bound creatures?

Hmm but am I making sense here? Is he making sense either when he said the money should be re-directed to a better cause. What is a better cause? If it is God's will to extinct the creatures, I guess I would accept it. But if is human's decision that $XX should go to rainforest conservation instead of panda conservation, somehow I just cannot stomach it. Because we were the cause why Pandas need protection now. And we should pay our debts / atone our sins.

Is like saying Bukit Timah Nature is a living dead and we should just scrap it. But in the first place, it was mankind who created that road causing BKT serious repercussions. So we should solve the problem not erase the problem and record in history as something that was "too late to be salvaged".

Having said that, euthanasia on pandas - over my dead body!

p/s: Another fellow mate commented that such situation is the same in the human world where it is a cost-centric world. Thus special needs people are termed useless and a burden and a losing investment... i.e. they should be eradicated too. Sad but true.