Do agree that we only realize that we are just like other animals for very brief moments of our lives...?

Question

Do agree that we only realize that we are just like other animals for very brief moments of our lives is because we are not supposed to? We are always so absorbed into our lives that we almost never dwell upon or realize that we are just simply smarter monkeys and basically the same as all animals. That if dogs become smarter than us by the same margin that we are smarter than dogs, the dogs would look at us the same exact way as we currently look at them.

Answer 1

Well I agree with you that we are just animals with vocal cords, but we do have reasoning and morals (or supposed to have it anyways) also.  

The reasoning part is the biggest reason why we don't necessarily stop and think about our link to other animals...

Answer 2

the only time i behave like an animal is when it comes to s*x,apart from that never think that a dog will be smarter than me or any other creature

Answer 3

Have you ever thought that animals are actually the SMART ones and we're the ones fumbling around down here without a freaking clue? Hmmm, crazy bald guy might just have an angle here...

Considering we've muddied up our lives enough to not stick around our to raise our children, not be responsible toward our own species and we can't even agree on the most fundamental of arguments in how we should provide healthcare to each other and our children...buuut, then again, I could be wrong.

However, I'd lay down a certain amount of money (a manmade creation, which for some reason separates us into "classes" of the same animal) that dogs have a great life, communicate well, provide healing relationships, can breed sometimes up to 10 pups at a time and aren't ashamed to drop their load anywhere they want. We on the other hand have a problem if our mate hears our pee hitting the water behind closed doors as this seems kind of "embarrassing" to us...

Yeah, we're animals and we may have technology and "discovery" on our side, but I guarantee we don't have the intestinal fortitude to live up to our responsibility as a species that should be focused on the encouragement of free thought, discovery and self-care management (including medicine, food and education) to out last the other species....we're dooming ourselves, just as the previous races of humanoids did...unless, they figured out the REAL human's race, and that's to find a way to get off the planet to find new resources and new worlds...so we can leech off them too.  That's the real human race...

peace,

Baldy

Answer 4

Sorry, not an evolutionist, so no I cannot agree.

You can be linked to monkeys if you like, but I am not taking that rubbish on board in my mind!

Mel

Answer 5

I can see how we'd kill animals, especially for dietary reasons - it's not like other animals aren't carnivores too - but I agree that we take it too far with the whole poaching/cruelty/hunting concepts.

It's in man's nature to be stupid like that.

And what's with people killing insects for being in their way, or just being there? I never got it.

They're disgusting, but their germs are like other animals' germs, including wastes of the human body, so humans could be called disgusting too.

Simply because we have our own recognizable type of intelligence, we declare ourselves superior.

We may not even be the most adaptable animals - [half joking] I heard cockroaches can survive atomic bombs.

We'll all feel like ants and lions in our lives sometime, though.

At the rate we're going, I wouldn't be surprised if, in some twisted case of irony, humans end up destroying themselves [atomic war, pollution and fossil fuels, etc.] before natural selection can outweigh them.

EDIT: Baldy's answer cracked me up on how ironically true it was.

Answer 6

I agree with you and the poster above. Well, except for the part about insects. I hate insects. Always having to kill or get rid of some insect or other from time to time. Such a bother and so disgusting.  

Answer 7

Definitely. I try to remind that to myself and others as much as possible though. Helps to keep an objective perspective on things.

Answer 8

We are intelligent primates, not monkeys, and if you want to be real technical, we are intelligent apes.

also those who are well in tune with nature, already know that we are animals and nothing more, so not everyone is (caught up in their life)

Answer 9

I've seen more compassion in animals than humans and love being in their company. If their brains were as powerful as humans people wouldn't be half the man animals are.

Answer 10

i've thought about that before. i wonder how can someone kill an animal. they are just like us except they have there own way of doing things. even insects.  and i think humans are the worst animal of them all