Only difference between....

Humans and animals is that we ask why? How? And what? Animals do none of this only just do actions kind of like off instinct? Am I way off?

P.s. I'm baked and watching 'how the universe works

 

But humans are animals.

 

The only diffenference is reason. We as human search for reason I stead of instinct. All animals are capable of same physical acts but we are only species that imagines looks for answers...

 

This poem by Henry Beston sums up my feelings ……

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man.

In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."


Hotwater

 

animals don't have facebook.

 

Quite an assumption, I can't speak bear, pig or goldfish but i'm sure they know that.

 

A cow playing farmville, treating his cows poorly...

 

I can speak pig latin :toilet:

 

Pig Latin has been a very useful tool since the bay of Pigs invasion of 61

 

actually my friends dog has a facebook. i dont think he goes on much though

 

Apart from the fact that human beings are animals, no other animal buys things, all living according to inherent virtue.

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,934239,00.html

 

Interesting article. In the absence of human intervention, animals don't buy things. Some animals do observe social convention to gain acceptance so that I suppose, is a type of barter.

 

I would say you can go down to the insect level and see evidence of theft and warfare.

I wouldn't necessarily say there's an inherent virtue in being inhuman. We're just chimps wearing suits and trying to adapt to the fact of our clear awareness of being a chimp wearing a suit.

 

Well we are the only creatures who create meaningful art, use language for reasons other than straight communication and i believe the only species on earth that develops philosophical systems to live our lives by, perhaps due to a void of instinct.

 

You know, I'd never considered that.

 

Humans have egos.

 

Theft and warfare are not exactly commerce. I just don't think animals have a concept of abstract value. What I mean by inherent virtue is be able to deal with the environment physiologically, without the need for clothes or tools. Although some animals use tools it is an adjunct to their physiological equipment.

We don't even have the dentition or digestive system to consume all the foods we can consume without cooking. Is that another area where we are distinct, that we cook our food, use fire?

I agree with you that mans inherent virtue is his mind. It is our mind that picks up where our physiology falls short.

 

"Things that kill to eat"

 

Google prostitute penguins