I expected that argument. Yes, humans have some choice. How much? Whatever choice we make, we will influence our environment. Whatever choice I make, my survival will harm some other beings, plants or dead shapes of nature. We are about 6.76 billion. Just feeding us and keeping us warm when we are cold will affect many beings. We can harm more, or less, but we will always do harm. To be the gentle folk of sustainable almost-non-invasive lifestyle we wish to be, we'd have to kill of 6.7 billions of ourselves. Hardly an alternative. IMO only the choice you mention separates us from the cruel midless beast, but that choice doesn't come for free. It is hard, it costs energy, and it needs to be reinforced again and again. Still, I am willing to argue that, on the average, humans are less cruel than many animals and plants. Of course you can define "cruel" as "applies to humans only", but then that definition is pointless.
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