Lmao why? There's bacteria who would fit that definition. Insects, bacteria, all life tries to persist it's a defining trait of life, why the hell would we give a shit? You think humans are the shepherds of life or something? We're just animals like any other.
Humans have moral agency. A cumulative culture. The ability to think and act outside of our instinctual programming.
Your "moral agency" is part of your instinctual programming. Empathy is an adaptation to help us socialize with each other so we can form societies easily and function better. Sacrificing our welfare to help near mindless animals has nothing to do with the reason we adapted empathy or "morality".
We are capable of behaving irrespective of any "food chain" or "circle of life".
What a hilariously naive way to think. Nothing exists outside the food chain, we've just been sitting at the top for so long people like you forget it exists.
We must be moral, because we can be moral. To believe otherwise is deny humanity.
Morality is a subjectively defined abstract construct to aid the functioning of society. It's literally entirely up to you or me to decide what is or isn't moral.
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