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Are human beings animals?
- Thread starter Anto
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Yes, I consider humans to be animals. Primates, mammals, tetrapod, vertebrate, animals.
The faiths that disagree must be delusional.
Kuzcotopia
If you can read this, you are as lucky as I am.
We are animals. Our cell structure is that of animals (not that of plants or fungi). We have skeletons (so we are vertebrates). We reproduce using a uterus, making us placental mammals. We have forward facing eyes and hands with nails (not claws), so we are primates.
And yes, finally, we are a species of great ape.
That doesn't deny that we are special in our ability to abstract, our languages, and our ability to create complicated social structures and art.
And yes, finally, we are a species of great ape.
That doesn't deny that we are special in our ability to abstract, our languages, and our ability to create complicated social structures and art.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Of course. Having intellect and the ability for introspection dosent negate anything.
Our own genome confirms that fact by which we are easily traced back to our origins as members of the great apes.
Like it or not, we are primates living on a rock in space.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
After being here at RF for a fair number of years, ya, they are animals here.
But to the OP, my answer is yes.
A Vestigial Mote
Well-Known Member
I say yes, and would add that there is absolutely no shame to be had in that idea. The people who disagree tend to find it though. I've always guessed there was some kind of insecurity at play there.
Yes humans are animals. Religions tend to make humans out to be some sort of higher form which can be true to a certain extent while still being animals. Do humans have some special soul that animals and even angels do not, I doubt it. The way I figure if there is some sort of spirit that it’s imbued in all life forms. Sure humans are special in many ways but there are other mammals, mainly great apes which show the same if not more advanced cognitive abilities including self awareness.
Isn't this primarily found as a teaching of the Bible, though, and not a tendency of religions more broadly? I mostly just see this in the Abrahamic religions, not elsewhere.
Most religions are freudian which is normal right handed world apparently.
Religion trends towards freudian. It's like freud loves the bible it's dysfunctional and normal. Believe not believe same dysfunction.
They are "normals" it's freud dressed up in religious drag.
I'm not sure where you came to such a strange idea. Then again, it's rather hard to understand what you are saying at all given this post doesn't follow proper grammatical conventions.
HonestJoe
Well-Known Member
It has little to do with science, nothing to do with religion and there’s no opinion about it; human beings clearly meet all standard definitions of the word animal. People are perfectly entitled to suggest human are somehow special or elevated but saying we’re not animals is just linguistically wrong.
Your probably right. Although I often hear the term higher consciousness as something atainable by humans but some may argue other animals are already there.