Agree with Schweitzer but seems improbable

I agree with Schweitzer’s theory of Reverence for Life and what he has to say about the conflict between contemporary ethics and the will to live. However, it doesn’t seem realistic that people would adapt this view. On a personal level, I agree that all living being with the will to live have intrinsic value. I also agree with the idea that we truly don’t face ethical dilemmas unless we put are well being or lives at risk. As I said earlier, I believe in treating all animals kindly and as if they are inherently valuable and personally I am a vegetarian. But If I see a wasp flying around in my room, I want them to go away as soon as possible and If there wasn’t a window to open, I would try to kill them, this is something that I expect most people would do.
I don’t think that his ideas will be main place until the majority of people become conscious and realize the impact of their actions which I won’t think will happen any time soon. There are many arguments that can be made against this, for instance what about people that are in Acoma, would it be ethical to kill them because they don’t have a will to live. Plants have defense mechanisms to keep predators from eating them; it isn’t conscious but it would be some form of desire to live. People could also argue that the conditions animals are put them in stockyards, that they lost the will to live so it would be doing them a service to end their lives.