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Are Human Beings Animals?

iguanaman said:
Life on earth consists of 3 familys, animals, plants , and fungus. Which of these best fits you?
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i don't know, i've often been told that i'm a "fun guy"

sorry, i have a compulsion that makes me tell dad jokes
 
Viktyr Gehrig said:
We're a species of ape, not altogether different from the other species of ape. I would say that humans are the greatest of the great apes... but that would be rather chauvinistic of me, would it not? Not even merely anthropocentric, since I would be proclaiming our superiority even to the other anthropoids.

We are nothing but animals, nothing but extensions of the natural world. And if you think that unduly limits or diminishes us, then I would argue that means you have a poor understanding of the natural world.
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From what I gather about humanity... we do share a common ancestor with the apes but they are NOT our ancestors.

Somewhere in the past there was a branching in the evolution tree.

One branch went on and generated all the great apes you see here today.

The other branch went and eventually ended up in us with all our human races.
 
Dragonfly said:
Plain and simple.

Are we animals? Not: "Do we sometimes act like animals?"

Even in our most gentle of times, our most loving and generous of times, when we are most nurturing and thoughtful.
Are we animals?

I've known quite a few people to get rather indignant when any suggestion of humans being classified as animals is thrown across the table.

Thoughts?
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I think this was a topic that we covered in grade school.
 
Dragonfly said:
Plain and simple.

Are we animals? Not: "Do we sometimes act like animals?"

Even in our most gentle of times, our most loving and generous of times, when we are most nurturing and thoughtful.
Are we animals?

I've known quite a few people to get rather indignant when any suggestion of humans being classified as animals is thrown across the table.

Thoughts?
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I believe that you were hoping that someone would bring up the typical Christian view that humans are different from animals because they say that humans have souls and animals dont. Or in the bible where it says that we are above the animals and all that jive. Also the question is related to the teachings of creationism.


Perhaps no one bit because even they know better, and cannot deny that humans are animals?
 
FreedomFromAll said:
I believe that you were hoping that someone would bring up the typical Christian view that humans are different from animals because they say that humans have souls and animals dont. Or in the bible where it says that we are above the animals and all that jive. Also the question is related to the teachings of creationism.


Perhaps no one bit because even they know better, and cannot deny that humans are animals?
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It is typically the highly-religious type that scoffs at the idea that humans are animals.

Isn't it?
 
Dragonfly said:
It is typically the highly-religious type that scoffs at the idea that humans are animals.

Isn't it?
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I haven't heard the argument from any other angle from anyone. really the human does not equal animal argument is extremely weak and I think that the religious people that assert it are more prone to say it in a echo chamber. The subject is much too easy to debate against and win. Its almost just common knowledge these days.
 
Dragonfly said:
Plain and simple.

Are we animals? Not: "Do we sometimes act like animals?"

Even in our most gentle of times, our most loving and generous of times, when we are most nurturing and thoughtful.
Are we animals?

I've known quite a few people to get rather indignant when any suggestion of humans being classified as animals is thrown across the table.

Thoughts?
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Of course we're animals. What else would we be?
 
Rainman05 said:
From what I gather about humanity... we do share a common ancestor with the apes but they are NOT our ancestors.

Somewhere in the past there was a branching in the evolution tree.

One branch went on and generated all the great apes you see here today.

The other branch went and eventually ended up in us with all our human races.
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1) We are apes
2) the common ancestor for all current apes (both great and lesser) was also an ape.
 
Dragonfly said:
Plain and simple.

Are we animals? Not: "Do we sometimes act like animals?"

Even in our most gentle of times, our most loving and generous of times, when we are most nurturing and thoughtful.
Are we animals?

I've known quite a few people to get rather indignant when any suggestion of humans being classified as animals is thrown across the table.

Thoughts?
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Of course we are.

Do we have a more complex mental capacity than what most people think of when they hear the word animal? Yes....however, the only difference is social constructs between man and other animals. Some people have no sense of social constructs. Hence, the worst of what society has to offer.
 
We are animals, homo sapiens.

As rather bizarre and hairless apes, we set about creating concepts in order to rule others, like "justice," "good," and "evil."

The animals who have more dislikable tendencies, like serial killers and rapists, and deemed "evil," when in fact those behaviors are just another facet of the creature called "human."
 
I always thought of us as being plants.


Dragonfly said:
Plain and simple.

Are we animals? Not: "Do we sometimes act like animals?"

Even in our most gentle of times, our most loving and generous of times, when we are most nurturing and thoughtful.
Are we animals?

I've known quite a few people to get rather indignant when any suggestion of humans being classified as animals is thrown across the table.

Thoughts?
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Dragonfly said:
Plain and simple.

Are we animals? Not: "Do we sometimes act like animals?"

Even in our most gentle of times, our most loving and generous of times, when we are most nurturing and thoughtful.
Are we animals?

I've known quite a few people to get rather indignant when any suggestion of humans being classified as animals is thrown across the table.

Thoughts?
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Yes. Plain and simple answer, for a plain and simple question. Sometimes I think it might have been better if humans hadn't developed cognitive abilities, or at least just some of us :lol:
 
I really do not know how the answer to this question could possibly ever be "no".
 
As we are bound by the natural selection we are animals indeed. We have, however, enslaved other animals to serve us. May it be as dinner or as labors.
 
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