This question has been asked before, and the top differences between humanity and lesser species were: Capacity for logic/reason, sentience/self-awareness, capacity for faith, awareness of mortality, and the development of tools. I would argue that if not a majority, at least a significant minority of humans do not possess all or any of these traits.
We believe that because we are "aware", even when vast numbers of our species commit "animalistic" acts - often in the name of faith, using tools and rendering mortality an intangible phenomenon - we are still above other species because we have invented our own existence and can give thoughtful consideration to the ways and reasons why we murder, war, rape, steal, and consistently make illogical and unreasonable choices and ways of living speciewide. So, what do you suppose truly separates us from 'the animals'?
2007-07-09
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