Language is a huge part of people's cultural perspective, and it causes all sorts of stupid things to happen. People will say things like "animals don't have mo

Language is a huge part of people's cultural perspective, and it causes all sorts of stupid things to happen. People will say things like "animals don't have morality", when in fact they only fail to have a human morality that humans can communicate. They'll say "animal X doesn't have emotions" - based on what? The fact that they can't communicate with you and demonstrate a human-like response? Then there's the whole board of culture antagonism built upon the premise of people who can't speak your language being 'lesser people' in some manner.