Do you really think you're above animals?

Question

Think about it, we're all born. We all eat. We all survive. We all have the same color blood. We all feel pain. We all die. How are we different? In your own opinion please.

LOL suggested category: pets.

Answer 1

But as far as we know, humans aren't delicious with a side of mashed potatoes.

Answer 2

We are a animals, but at the apex. There is no other animal that has the power to destroy all others, to tame, use as labour, eat, cage, keep as pets, etc.



There is no animal that is in dominion over man.



There is no animal with man's intellect, creativity or self awareness.



This is not to say that we don't have responsibility to look after those less animals lower down the development chain than ourselves. We are just not developed enough to do that well...



PS Some animals are hatched. Not all have red blood. Not all feel pain. there are innumerable ways in which we are different

Answer 3

In the spiritual level, there is no difference between god, man, tree, star, planets, minerals, plants, dogs, atoms, fairies, demons, angels. WE are one but our degree of spirituality defines our consciousness of who we are spiritually. In the physical level, including the level of mind, soul, emotion and body, we are different. Unfortunately, what we know is what is the other way around and therefore man kills man, man destroys nature and the planet, man eats animal not just for survival but for the pleasure of eating.

Answer 4

I believe we are animals. We are of the same spirit essence. But, then again, I'm an Animist, and even believe some of my ancestors have come back as animals to watch over me.

Answer 5

Me=Vegetarian

Me=animal with the special perk of enhanced mental capabilities.

Answer 6

In terms of intelligence, we are above animals (although how we act is a completely different story!)



P.S Not all animals have red blood

Answer 7

superior fingers that can manipulate much better than practically any other... brains are pretty awesome too... but then again we have that ot make up for lack of strength and speed.. so ya we arent any better and we've become the biggest biological threat to the world

Answer 8

Actually, we DON'T all have the same color blood. In some organisms, it comes out white, or blue, or even green.

Answer 9

Spiders have green blood, which I will count as grounds to continue not liking them.

That aside, as I sit here in my ground floor house (an important point, as the only animals that would be beneath me would be earthworms), no, I do not see myself as superior to animals.

I have different abilities, but this does not make me superior to them, any more than pigeons are superior to me because they can fly, and escape prosecution when they befoul public statues.

Answer 10

Yes. We're social animals. We're bound to favour our own kind.

Answer 11

Yes. What distinguishes us above animals is our minds. Or do you believe that animals are intellectually equivalent to humans?

Answer 12

I'm above cats and dogs but below giraffes and elephants.

Answer 13

Have you ever seen a cat that can type on a computer keyboard?

Answer 14

In my house, the cats rule!

Answer 15

No, we're not above animals. We are a species of animal. Nothing more.

Answer 16

Actually,spiders don't have blood(green or otherwise). They have heamolymph which is colourless,not green.

Answer 17

We don't feel pain and we live forever! Also the place we were born is different!

Answer 18

We are animals.

Answer 19

Donna, go to the zoo and see how many animals have computers.

Answer 20

we only differ by our more active imagination

Answer 21

Some of us are above them. Some of us just like them.

Answer 22

The above Bible verse (Gen 1:26) reads in real English this way:



Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground

Answer 23

No, I don't. We are animals, after all.

Answer 24

Ge:1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Answer 25

lets see, maybe we....think?? speak??? invent??? don't poop and mate in public??

Answer 26

We aren't different, that's why I'm a vegeterian, meat is murder