2006-08-28 12:24:23 · 9 answers · asked by redcap45c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Hummans are not the only creatures with opposable thumbs. (from ya "What animals have opposable thumbs?"). {I thought bats had opposable thumbs =P}
It seems like a simple question but I think it cuts into the core of our own self-perception. Are we any better?Are we any worse? That it what the question was taken as, it appears.
It's only a small amount of our genetic code that seperates all life.
Yet life yields a multitude of splender in all shapes and forms.
2006-08-28 13:31:00 · update #1
Animals have intelligence, can reason, sometimes have opposable thumbs and use crude tools. Some of them undoubtedly have language. It's fashionable to theorize that language is what advanced us to our human stage.
It could be something like abstract symbols instead. Are animals capable of understanding, creating or communicating abstract constructs? We don't really know the answer.
It gave us the ability to create religion, art, literature and music. Of course my kittens and my parrot think I am God, but that doesn't count.
On the darker side, you could say humans are different than animals because they are capable of elaborate deceptions, not just some small cheating strategies here and there.
2006-08-31 14:42:22 · answer #1 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals don't use forks.
People use forks.
Animals generally only fight and kill for food or for self protection.
People kill for no reason.
Animals tend to find a natural population balance with their surroundings.
People multiply until thier surroundings can no longer support them, then they continue to multiply.
Animals don't destroy thier own habitats.
People destroy their homes and neighborhoods, their towns and the surrounding countryside and call it "progress".
Many people suggested that "knowing right from wrong" was an important difference. Animals don't have those kinds of choices to make. Right and Wrong are purely human because of the concepts of good an evil. Since animals have no religion and are not subject to being evil, they never have to make that choice. Hurray for humans again.
2006-08-28 12:44:40 · answer #2 · answered by Jerry L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fences
2006-08-28 12:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by Sassafrass 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The ability to use reason, and opposable thumbs.
Oh, and animals are NICER to each other.
2006-08-28 12:30:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opposable thumbs, language, and millenia to learn how to use them.
2006-08-28 12:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE ABILITY TO DISCERN RIGHT FROM WRONG, THE ABILITY TO REASON AND ALSO THE OPPOSABLE THUMBS
2006-08-28 12:40:01 · answer #6 · answered by swetlana16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To know of our existance and question it's meaning.
Often the simplist of answers prove to provide the best answers
Do you agree?
2006-08-28 12:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ability to discern right from wrong.
2006-08-28 12:34:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be able to live by more than instinct alone
2006-08-28 12:31:20 · answer #9 · answered by mr. Bob 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋