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It's so nice to have a dialogue like this.

I think I can agree that today's humans are parasites, that seems at least very close to colonizers. Our difference may be that you think we've always been that way, and I think through a series of early catalysts we became that way.

I see ants much more as polinators and soil tenders and prey and decomposers within thriving wild than parasites. Maybe civilized people living civilized lives in civilized homes see them that way, but since I was 2 I've observed them, and I never saw that in them.

You said anti-hunting critique is 'outdated'? From an anprim lens, or other lens, I don't get it.

How can hunting restore nature with no awareness of how nature is restored? That sounds like a very shallow popular narrative with no backing.

How can the current model be stopped or slowed with no change in our current parasitic ethos?

How do you disagree with my quote:

"...anprims struggle with defining human habitat ranges – they don’t want limitations experienced by wild animals as homes, they are trapped with desiring a destructive sham freedom to colonize, they are accustomed to the entitlement to roam so extensively and fearlessly that they no longer sense total belonging within a bioregion’s community of life. This is why anprims laud hunting, justifying it in the wings of more recent indigenous people’s cultures and mythology of earlier humans’ primal ventures in predation – they don’t want to live as foraging primates, they have been conditioned to hunger the hunt of animals, unwittingly craving civilization’s catalyst. This is why anprims mock veganism, dismissing it with invalid claims of being nothing more than leftist drivel – they don’t want to acknowledge their own innate compassion for animals suppressed by predatory indoctrination."