No. We are the first species that can understand the consequences of our doings, and thus we are fully accountable. Saying that maybe something better will arise is wishful thinking.
I’d argue that people don’t actually comprehend consequence very well, and I sincerely doubt we do it much better than some other species. We have priorities which overwhelm our ability to reason well and self-serving tendencies which seem to exacerbate this problem.
We’re good at technology but woefully bad at many things.
I’m not aiming to argue here, especially not to suggest we shouldn’t be accountable. I suppose I think we give ourselves too much credit and other species not enough. We are objectively bad, especially collectively, at making good choices for the world we inhabit. It’s evidently a deficiency of our species.
