I don’t see it as meddling, more of a choice I guess. We either want more caribou on that island or more wolves or a certain combination of both for whatever purpose the majority agrees to.
Everything we do can be considered “unnatural”. We domesticate animals to create a stable, easy food source. We cultivate and genetically modify crops for the same reason. Develope medicines and treatments. All things that have made humans so successful (survive, expand, populate). I find it funny how many people benefit from all this but at the same time seem to hate and somehow separate themselves from being human. But I also think attitudes like that must only exist in our privileged and easy society. I have a feeling if people were hungry and struggling to survive, their moral stances would be a little different. Personally I accept the fact that in order for me to eat,survive and reproduce, that things have to die wether I do it or not.
I don’t think caribou are special, and I don’t think Wolves are evil. I believe wolves have strong instincts to kill because that’s how they evolved and survived. No sense putting a human emotion to it. It doesn’t make sense that a highly evolved predator would not take advantage of an opportunity to kill just because it wasn’t hungry. Doesn’t mean that its evil or bad. And no one should believe predators only kill the “sick and the weak”. That’s an over simplified explanation that some people take literally.
Sorry for the longwinded post.
