Damocles said:
I would say that nature has shown over the past several billion years that it's EXACTLY our job to go around exterminating weaker species. This is what survival of the fittest is.
Nature is a battlefield to survive.
the way we kill things isn't natural, so from my point of view at least, "survival of the fittest" does not apply.
We are not a natural predator of the whale and on your logic we'd have to exterminate everything using weapons that are not part of a human's biological make-up.
Nature has shown that those who adapt to their natural surroundings and the changes in nature survive, how you honestly expect whales to evolve to deal with humans using man-made floating devices and man-made traps to catch them and man-made weapons to murder them is beyond me.
Our intelligence makes up for our physical weakness, it doesn't give us the right to believe we are superior to anything else, because we're not, we're from the same cloth as everything else. We're not special, unless you're a believer in the soul and believe some higher power gave us the right to do what we like over other species. Killing for survival is one thing, extermination is another thing entirely.