Great, so we agree to some extent. And I agree that we are right to be proud of our special qualities. It's the assertion that humans are exceptionally special

Great, so we agree to some extent. And I agree that we are right to be proud of our special qualities. It's the assertion that humans are exceptionally special in any objective sense which I don't agree with, and which would require some super-specie value system to be logically valid. Religion or some similar belief can obviously be such a system, but I personally find such incompatible with what I can reasonably infer from established facts. I guess we can leave it at that.