Re: You are not a dumb animal!
- From: "ZenIsWhen" <ZenIsWhen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:45:59 GMT
"Hugh" <anon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4636abf2.17997734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In recent times, it has become fashionable to regard animals as furry
little people, and human beings as just another kind of animal. What a
lot of rubbish.
Yes, that is ... but, then again, it's only YOUR warping of realaity.
Human beings ARE animals ............ they're certainly not vegetable or
mineral! (Though vegetable would describe many people).
No one I've ever heard of (excluding very lonely people who think of their
own pets as people) thinks that animals are "furry little people".
Despite the best efforts of the animal rights
extremists to downplay the differences between animals and humans, the
fact remains that there is an enormous gulf between us and the rest of
the animal kingdom.
and there's an enormous gulf between lizzards and penguins .... so what?
Animal rights activists claim that all living creatures have rights. They
are NOT claiming that all creatures have "human rights".
So far, you're batting 1,000 ............... wrong, that is....
snip meaningless (and uneducated) description and differences between humans
and animals .
With our large brains comes a level of intelligence far greater than
that of any other member of the animal kingdom.
With our large brains (which are actually smaller than some animals) comes
the CAPABILITY of intelligence - not the guarantee of intelligence.
Your own statements prove that.
A couple of simple
experiments show this. Take an object that an animal wants, say a
favourite toy. As long as the animal can see it, it will try to get
it. Now hide that object under something in plain view of the animal.
Even though it saw you hide the object, provided it cannot see or
smell it, with very few exceptions the animal will not realise the
object is still there but hidden from view, and will make no attempt
to retrieve it.
When was the last time you saw any animal fall down a flight of stairs
because the concept of depth and injury had not jet been learned?
Baby "animals", up to a certain age, stay close to the safety of their
parents.
Another trick is to show an animal its own reflection
in a mirror. Most animals will react as if they are seeing another
member of their species, and either attempt to attack their reflection
or run away.
Most is not all!
I've heard it said that chimpanzees can recognise their
own reflection for what it is, but I suspect that could just be due to
wishful thinking on the researcher's part. I recently saw a
documentary about apes, in which some of the apes had been given
pieces of mirror to play with. The commentator was enthusiastically
saying how the monkeys were looking at their own reflection, proving
that they were thinking, self-aware creatures. This was despite the
fact that all the monkeys were holding the pieces of mirror nearly
edge-on, at an angle which made it impossible for them to see their
own reflection.
At that particular moment.
Elephants have been shown to look behind them, when looking at their own
reflection in a mirror, shows something interesting behind them.
What they appeared to be looking at instead was the
trees and the sky reflected in these pieces of mirror. They'd been
given something that could have allowed them to see themselves as
others see them, and yet they used it to make pretty colours instead.
A person given a mirror for the first time would have acted very
differently.
Now, since you obviously are presenting this as a fact, you MUST have some
scientific references to support it.
Where are they?
Not only are we far smarter than most animals, there is
something fundamentally different about the way our intellect works
that sets us apart from anything else in the animal kingdom.
Different does not always equate to better.
Only us
humans have religious beliefs, bury our dead and feel the need to wear
clothes.
Humans NEED religious beliefs to conquer the fear of ignorance.
Humans NEED to wear clothes because of defects in their emotions and
outlooks.
Burying their dead is merely an extension of religious beliefs.
Our intelligence gives us such an edge over animals that we've
inadvertently rendered many of them extinct.
That's good?
In fact, the time when
the first humans appeared can be fairly reliably dated to a little
over 100,000 years ago, because that's when the extinctions started.
As early humans spread across the globe, a wave of extinctions
accompanied them. There is no evidence of a single species ever having
had such an impact on other animal species before,
Obviously you are not a veterinarian, or an anthropologist.
demonstrating again
how different from animals us humans really are. Don't let anyone tell
you that people are just another kind of animal.
Your arguments, as false and ignorant as they are, haven't changed the fact
that Human Beings are just another form of animals.
more at:
http://uk.geocities.com/dumb.animals/
Why go there to see "dumb animals"; when all one needs do is read your post?
.
- References:
- You are not a dumb animal!
- From: Hugh
- You are not a dumb animal!
- Prev by Date: Re: Jesus was a homosexual
- Next by Date: Re: Jesus was a homosexual
- Previous by thread: Re: You are not a dumb animal!
- Next by thread: Shopping the religions-sex in heaven?
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
