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"Animals are more human than we’d like to admit" I take issue with this subtitle of the article. Humans are animals. This false dichotomy between Homo Sapiens
by WhompingWindows 6y ago
"Animals are more human than we’d like to admit"
I take issue with this subtitle of the article. Humans are animals. This false dichotomy between Homo Sapiens and "animals" has been foisted upon us by religious and homo-centric ideology. We need to embrace Darwinian evolution and our biological roots, we are a branch on the tree of organisms. We should be surprised that "other" animals may have aspects of culture;of course they do, as do macaques, wolves, chimpanzees, crows, eusocial insects, singing birds, anything that lives in colonies, etc.
- insertUsername2 6y agoI don't think the intent of the article is to indicate that we are not animals but to point out that we should apply more of the way on how we treat other humans to how we treat animal because the difference we thought were between animals and humans are really much smaller than we thought and in many cases we are much closer than many of us want to belive.
- insertUsername2 6y agoThe subtitle even says: "Animals are more human than we’d like to admit" So all humans are animals but not all animals are humans which is correct. You could also say "human" in this context is used as in "human behavior". Not sure. However, I as well would have greatly have prefered: "Humans are more animals than we’d like to admit"