Aesthetics: The Nerve

The idea that all living things, because they are alive are equally valuable is simply ridiculous in my mind. To have to question whether to run over a squirrel or a human child is not much of a question at least to me. A cat is not an ant, a puppy is not a porcupine and they all have different values to human kind. In theory it sounds great that all living things would be seen as equals. That protecting ant eaters is as important as protecting horses is a great idea in theory, but in all reality a person is going to first protect the animal that they find most appealing.
This idea of aethetic pleasures gives me the idea of Hitler in a sense. He wanted to have only one kind of human being in the world. The Aryans who were blond haired, blue eyed, etc. And that was obviously ridiculous. But it feels sometimes that that is exactly what we are doing when we pick to protect the "pretty" animals and let the "ugly" ones die off. Okay maybe that's not a very good analogy but I do have a problems as to how we categorize what animals we place upon pedastals and the ones that fall by the wayside.