Do You Consider Yourself An Animal?

[Slang]

Is your ability to classify, label, imagine, entertain or create exceed what it means to be an animal or are they simply refined animal behaviours?

 

[DEAD7]

"Do You Consider Yourself An Animal?" yes.

 

[Slang]

Do you consider the above refined animal behaviours?

"Do You Consider Yourself An Animal?" yes.

 

[Kritic]

btwn picking whether i'm an animal or a plant....

 

[DEAD7]

Do you consider the above refined animal behaviours?

no, but we have the ability to ignore our instincts.

 

[unit321]

No. But you can call me maybe.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

It doesn't matter what you think...Scientifically speaking, humans are animals...

Just because we can classify, label, imagine, entertain or create doesn't mean we are beyond being animals...

Those behaviours are just the human way of surviving everyday just to get laid...However, we have the ability to change our environment, and as we change our environment, our environment also changes our behaviours...

But that happens with all living organisms...Even bacteria...

A lot of the stuff we humans do, I believe is because of all the excess functions that our larger brains have...

We are not better than non-human animals simply for the fact that the majority of humans on this planet live under sub-standard conditions, despite the amount resources we have...

You will be hard pressed to find a wolf pack with starving members, when there is a lot of deer to be hunted and killed...

So, I personally wouldn't even call human behaviour as "refined animal behaviours" because "refined" implies that we should be making things "better," and yet, we humans are so wasteful...

We are NOT efficient...

 

[Blackking]

It doesn't matter what you think...Scientifically speaking, humans are animals...

Just because we can classify, label, imagine, entertain or create doesn't mean we are beyond being animals...

Those behaviours are just the human way of surviving everyday just to get laid...However, we have the ability to change our environment, and as we change our environment, our environment also changes our behaviours...

But that happens with all living organisms...Even bacteria...

A lot of the stuff we humans do, I believe is because of all the excess functions that our larger brains have...

We are not better than non-human animals simply for the fact that the majority of humans on this planet live under sub-standard conditions, despite the amount resources we have...

You will be hard pressed to find a wolf pack with starving members, when there is a lot of deer to be hunted and killed...

So, I personally wouldn't even call human behaviour as "refined animal behaviours" because "refined" implies that we should be making things "better," and yet, we humans are so wasteful...

We are NOT efficient...

The bold is the only way in which animals are better. And we have this ability - we just have so many other desires that selfishness suppresses this natural instinct.

 

[Kritic]

humans are no different from animals. we pretend to bring law and morals to guide us to deal with our instincts and desires but our animals instincts still prevail.

it's human nature to want to break every single 10 commandment. and we do all the time. but for us to live in harmony we have to live in order. but if we live in harmony we'll over populate this earth with limited resources/greed so we must find a way to kill each other.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

The bold is the only way in which animals are better. And we have this ability - we just have so many other desires that selfishness suppresses this natural instinct.

If survival and health are paramount, then how can you trivialize that point with this "The bold is the only way in which animals are better"...

Human animal behaviour is only "better" if you looking at it as a human animal yourself...

In my perspective, I don't think human animals are "better" or "worse" than any other animal...We are just animals, and we don't have as much control of our behaviours as we think...

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Nope.

 

[Blackking]

If survival and health are paramount, then how can you trivialize that point with this "The bold is the only way in which animals are better"...

Human animal behaviour is only "better" if you looking at it as a human animal yourself...

In my perspective, I don't think human animals are "better" or "worse" than any other animal...We are just animals, and we don't have as much control of our behaviors as we think...

We have so much more control and such a higher level of thought than other animals that.................. clearly calling us animals is a biological classification. Beyond the fact that we are a carbon based form that's not a freakin plant....

we are much different. "better" is simply an opinion I guess... but overall we are better. Sure we can't fly like a bird, but when a bird gets sick, it will die unless we can give it medicine. And even if it does fly we can shot it out the sky. A dolphin is highly intelligent... but they follow environments (even environments that WE set up for them) as opposed to manipulating them.

We are talking about animals on Earth........ yet we are on here saying we are the same as animals that live and die for food - while we are looking for life on other planets.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

We are conscious, so I go with no.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

We have so much more control and such a higher level of thought than other animals that.................. clearly calling us animals is a biological classification. Beyond the fact that we are a carbon based form that's not a freakin plant....

That's science though...We have to be as objective as possible... If you don't believe you are an animal, then you are starting to talk religion/philosophy or whatever semantic you are comfortable with...
Scientifically, we are animals...Regardless of how different we may be...

we are much different. "better" is simply an opinion I guess... but overall we are better. Sure we can't fly like a bird, but when a bird gets sick, it will die unless we can give it medicine. And even if it does fly we can shot it out the sky. A dolphin is highly intelligent... but they follow environments (even environments that WE set up for them) as opposed to manipulating them.

Just because we can manipulate our environment, to a certain extent, does NOT mean we are "overall better"...That behaviour is not even needed for survival, it something we do for comfort and convenience, which in turns creates a lot more problems that we can't seem to resolve...

We are talking about animals on Earth........ yet we are on here saying we are the same as animals that live and die for food - while we are looking for life on other planets.

And why are we looking for life on other planets...? Because we live and die for resources...We are motivated by the same force that drives life...SURVIVAL...However, we have bigger brains that allow us more complex behaviour to achieve that goal...

It doesn't make us "better", because a dolphin does not need to swim in an extraterrestrial ocean...A dolphin will be perfectly happy on Earth, with minimal human interference...

When you think about it, humans have very pest-like behaviours...Think of all the living organisms we (humans) consider to be "pests"....1) They destroy all resources with no balance, and when they are done in one spot, they move on to the next...they are EXPLORERS...2) They seem to be more skilled than other organisms...They are able to figure out new ways on getting to resources that may seem out of reach...PROBLEM SOLVERS...3) They live in multiple environments, and have a history in almost every corner of the world...ADAPTIVE...4) They are hard to kill, and can multiply at relatively faster rates...RESILIENT...

The only thing we do "better" is destroy...Because we don't take care of our progeny any better, we don't work together any better, we don't survive any better (there are way more plants and insects than humans on Earth)...

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

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