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...tion. They have no way of respecting human social contract and respecting our rights. It is the responsibility of humans to provide, to some extent, for the well being plants and rocks around us because we are the most evolved species and not because the plants and rocks do in fact have particular rights. If they actually had such rights, they would have to be such that ALL plants and animals would have to recognize and respect those rights or be in violation of them and subject to some sort of penalty as is inherent in violation of rights. To the ends humans go to preserve plants, rocks and the ecosystem around us has less to do with those things in themselves and more to do with the promotion of our own species. If they did in fact have rights, humans would have to respect those rights, even at our own expense. Human responsibility is not merely to other human beings. We also have a responsibility to other plants and animals in our ecosystem and even to the ecosystem itself. Many would like us not to recognize this as our responsibility but as a right the plants and animals around us inherently have. Do plants and rocks have inherent rights simply because they exist? The answer is clearly NO. Just has humans do not inherently have the right to life, liberty and happiness just because we exist. Humans have a responsibility to other humans as a result of a social contract we have in civilized society. Plants and r...