It depends on how you're using the word "animal". When used casually it can mean "beast", or "any animal except a human". But otherwise, yeah, humans are definitely animals. There's nothing to discuss here...
I am an organism, with similar necessities of life to pretty much any creature in existence. All human's are as I am. So yes, we are all animals. Anyone who says otherwise is compensating for their tiny W.A.N.G.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Hominidae Genus: Homo Species: Homo Sapiens Subspecies: Homo Sapiens Sapiens
I voted yes we are, but I would love to hear what the people who voted no have to say about why they said no. Regardless of the kind of answers I may get, it would be interesting to try to understand the mindsets of these people.
EDIT: In all seriousness though, socially we aren't exactly considered animals. After all, bestiality is frowned upon and described as the act of having sex with an animal. If we considered ourselves animals, then any sex between two humans would be considered bestiality under this definition.
" We are animals by definition. What seperates us from all other animals though is that we are tool makers. "
Not exactly true. Some chimpanzees have been known to use bent sticks to attract ants. "
That's why he said tool makers. Chimps will use tools, but they'll never have the cognition to conceptualize creation.
Also of course we are animals. I can see a bible thumper try and make a case against that...but that's on their version of Earth that's 50,000 years old so what do they know?
" We are animals by definition. What seperates us from all other animals though is that we are tool makers. "
Not exactly true. Some chimpanzees have been known to use bent sticks to attract ants. "
That's why he said tool makers. Chimps will use tools, but they'll never have the cognition to conceptualize creation.Also of course we are animals. I can see a bible thumper try and make a case against that...but that's on their version of Earth that's 50,000 years old so what do they know? "
Well, that's why I said bent sticks. They took sticks and bent them. At that point, they're making tools, IMO.
Biologically, of course. I do believe that humanity as a whole occupies a tier above and beyond all other creatures though. After all, I've yet to see or hear about any other creature put a bunch of metal and liquid together and shoot past the atmosphere of the planet. Or, on a smaller basis, intentionally make a tool that enabled them to make yet another tool.
In all seriousness though, socially we aren't exactly considered animals. After all, bestiality is frowned upon and described as the act of having sex with an animal. If we considered ourselves animals, then any sex between two humans would be considered bestiality under this definition. "
Are you having a bird bath? I'm not sure the definition of bestiality works like that. It's the practice of a human having sex with a non-human animal, not animals in general getting it on.
While it might make me sound like an angst-ridden misanthrope, to say the human species aren't like animals in the way we socialise is a bit daft. It's just that, like with everything we do, we've taken it all to a new level thanks to our big ol' brains.
It's all there. Just seems like a matter of how much one consciously shows.
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