Vegetarianism is wrong. Eating meat is the way to live.

Okay here goes, my arguments will become more clear as time goes on but I will try to make them as clear as possible at this point. Thanks for this topic, this is something I have been waiting for. First off I am attacking your rationale that leads you away from eating human meat. You tell me that they are not naturally a part of our food chain. But I find myself in a disagreement with you. I do not believe you can naturally define any animals food chain. Especially under the theory of evolution. Unless you claim a divine classification of what is natural. It is my conclusion that each animal chooses its own food chain. There are obviously factors that make eating certain things more desirable than others. For instance the eagle will search out the lazy sun bathing snake as opposed to the quick ferret. One prey is an easier catch. From this conclusion I leap to my next one. Humans no longer need to eat meat. This you admit in your final sentences when you tell me, "I do not believe that one cannot survive without meat. There are many countless vegetarians that survive to a healthy age." At one point I will agree that meat was an essential part of our diet for lack of advanced sciences or cultivation techniques. Yet I no longer believe this to be true. So now that I have established eating meat is not a necessary part of human life I will establish why it is unnecessary, immoral, and wrong. Thus with eating meat being wrong I will conclude with vegetarianism being right (being a fine alternative). First and foremost I would like to point to Darwin's theory and how we came to be. Did we not evolve from less complex and less complex creatures, organisms, cells? Keeping this in mind, ask yourself as a voter/ as my opponent why humans typically believe murder to be wrong? I can list reasons personally: It destroys an intelligent form of life, destroys potential for subjective good, destroys potential for growth. Perhaps you are one of those people that believes we should not kill humans for the mere reason that they are humans, if this be the case please tell me. I will attack such a point. Now to draw from my evolution and murder points in the last two paragraphs. What would have happened if another form of life had come along and killed one of the key creatures we had evolved from? What if something had killed that creature that had the mutation that lead to a slightly more sophisticated brain power? By the killing of such a creature the potential for the human race to not exist today dramatically increases. Therefor would we consider such a killing to be wrong? Indeed, to destroy the potential for a great intelligent race would be more than wrong (and all the subjective good / growth of life in general that goes along with such a killing). So what are we as humans doing everyday when we eat creatures? Can you prove to me that we have never eaten a creature that had a favorable gene mutation? I would contest with the amount of creatures humans have devoured that there is no chance we have not killed such a creature. To slow or even halt the intelligent development of any race is wrong. Next once again stemming from my murder point. We as humans seems to naturally define our race as superior to every other. We consider ourselves more intelligent, sophisticated, capable of greater good, and overall the dominant species. I consider such logic to be flawed. Think about every time you have considered yourself a member of a privileged sub-group. Perhaps you feel your country is superior to others, perhaps it be your ethnicity; I say you are wrong and your conclusions lead you to create greater wrongs. Look at examples of times when people have considered themselves to be greater than other forms of humans. Slavery, exploitation, abuse, sexism, racism. Look to the greatest example of man-kind thinking himself greater than others, Hitler. Is thinking our species greater any different than thinking our race greater, our country, our city? Whatever it may be. Does it not all stem from the same lack of logic? Can you prove to me that a dolphin does not have the potential to do good? Can you prove the dolphin cannot grow and teach others with it? Can you prove the dolphin is not intelligent in its own light? Does a dolphin not have the potential to evolve and become just as intelligent as human life? Is human's subjectively defining other forms of life somehow justified? I contest that any form of animal life can be just as important as any other. No perhaps not to you as a human but does that make a mice helping 5 other mice any less important? We as humans define ourselves as the center of the universe but I disagree. Humans are just another form of life. Humans are in the greater group that I refer to as "life". Any animal has the potential to benefit "life". Next. To put things in perspective. This earth has existed according to modern day scientists for billions of years. Humans? Couple thousand years. Do you realize during what insignificant portion of this earth we have existed? There were many species that came before us and doubtlessly many that will come after (providing the world is not destroyed). Are those species any less or more important because of what time they lived during? Am I more important than Socrates, Plato, Aristotle because I live now and they lived in the past? Doubtlessly not. In accordance to how long the world has existed and will exist humans are not the center of the universe. Obviously we consider ourselves to be the most important but that does not make it true. Objectively we are no more important than any other creature that has or will walk the face of this earth. I will argue that a creatures actions in my subjective view can make it important to me. For instance I would say that a lion that eats my sister is more important than the bum on the street. Or the dolphin that saves me from a shark attack more important than an acquaintance or even perhaps a good friend. However I do not consider any form of life to have a pre-defined less or more important status. Any creature can become important or unimportant through its actions. Finally if you would like to stick with the idea that man is the most important greatest form of life please note everything that man has done to this world. Please look to the fact that we have ruined so many things for so many different species and ourselves. Is that greatness? In my personal opinion I consider human actions to have on a whole hurt this earth far more than many other species could ever dream of. If you really want to define life on this earth into categories varying on how important they are then I say there is no way you could possibly put humans on the top rung. In conclusion: What I'm suggesting is that you as a human belong to a larger group called "life". Humans in the past have defined themselves into sub-groups and called themselves greater than others. What I'm asking is that you don't make the same mistake and take it a step farther. Don't just realize that we are all human beings on this earth but that we are all life on this earth. Each human being is different as each form of life is different but none is pre-determined lesser or greater than another. Therefor since murder is wrong, perhaps you don't agree in which case you can attack my point, I can see no reason why murdering one of another species is any different from murdering one of our own. Thus eating meat is wrong. Vegetarianism is the way to go! Note: This debate is taken in the perspective of no god existing. If you happen to be one of the god folk please judge as if you were not. Or at the very least see past your bias for the sake of voting on the better argument not on your own feelings.