Chris Knipp posted:

But I feel that animals are very different from humans and from each other, and that we've lost our place in nature from trying to dominate it, replacing respect for wild animals and nature with alternatively fetishizing them or ignoring them, rather than leaving them in their places and honoring them as beyond our right to dominate, adopt, or co-opt. I believe in honoring and trying to understand our differences from the wild animals and our current separation from authenntic nature, and not smoothing everything over with humanizing phrases.
Mr. Knipp demonstrates with his statements in regards to a good sensitivity of the role of human aggrandizement to the expense of the non-human experienceThe March of the Penguins. As a documentary, such movie genre have a higher level of expectation of an ethical and cinematic requirement that fictional depictions or dramatic films. Mr. Knipp's enlightened viewpoint is well worth listening to, particularly with the threat of man's continued destruction threatens not only this world but ourselves as well.