"But try to see yourself as a little ant or even less significant than that"

It's not usually significant to a human if an ant dies. And it's not usually significant to an ant if a human dies. And perhaps to god, neither is significant.

But we are human, and as you say, necessarily anthropocentric, and there is something seriously wrong with a human who thinks there is no significance to the Holocaust, or to Ted Bundy's victims. You can't just say "Wot the hell--they're all insects," and still be human.

Yes, I know about the Jains, but they're coming from the other side, where the ant is as significant as the human.

clint