Is Human a kind of animal?

[Whateverist]

Do you think of yourself and other people as a sort of Animal, or you consider yourself superior to animals?
Please explain your thoughts.

Well we’re definitely not plant or mineral so yeah an animal. Can’t think of any other kind of animal I’d rather be but I prefer the company of dogs and nature more broadly.

 

[Ebionite]

Then you're answering a question that wasn't asked.

By not asking the question the fiction that all people (from "our" in the OP) is perpetuated.

Our status as animals is even more obvious in terms of gross anatomy.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Its relevance is that it challenges the underlying assumption of the human condition.

That a human is an animal?

 

[Ebionite]

That a human is an animal?

That all people are human.

 

[Secret Chief]

Do you think of yourself and other people as a sort of Animal, or you consider yourself superior to animals?
Please explain your thoughts.

I don't think I'm an animal, I am an animal; specifically a member of the Hominidae, the so-called great apes.
- Hominidae - Wikipedia

Neither poll option was acceptable to me.

 

[Whateverist]

Even a religious fundy would have to try extra hard to get peeved about recognizing our kind as mammal. Even if God created everything then He saw fit to make us mammalian, not avian or a toaster. Maybe get out more, get a hobby or a life.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Not all animals are humans, but all humans are animals.

 

[Quintessence]

Do you think of yourself and other people as a sort of Animal, or you consider yourself superior to animals?

Well if by "people" you meant humans and not all the non-human persons we share this planet with, of course human persons are animals... that's just basic middle school biology. But even if this were not the case, it would not necessarily follow that rejection of the biological classification entails a hubristic sense of human superiority. What a weird dichotomy to frame things as...

 

[ChristineM]

Do you think of yourself and other people as a sort of Animal, or you consider yourself superior to animals?
Please explain your thoughts.

Yes we are animals, more precisely, primates though i don't consider us smarter.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Do you think of yourself and other people as a sort of Animal, or you consider yourself superior to animals?
Please explain your thoughts.

It isn't just a thought. We share the same basic characteristics that define animals. Human beings are a type of animal.

 

[InvestigateTruth]

It isn't just a thought. We share the same basic characteristics that define animals. Human beings are a type of animal.

Then why, if someone calls someone else "Animal", they get offended?

 

[SalixIncendium]

That all people are human.

So you’re openly admitting to derailing the thread?

 

[danieldemol]

Then why, if someone calls someone else "Animal", they get offended?

Its because it is used in a pejorative sense.

Its like this, Snoop dog sings about chilling with his dogs (homies) and its friendly, but if someone says F off you dog we can safely assume its pejorative.

Context matters

 

[SalixIncendium]

@InvestigateTruth - Why are we capitalizing "animal" in this thread? I've never seen it used as a proper noun, and both time you've used it, it did not begin a sentence.

 

[Ebionite]

So you’re openly admitting to derailing the thread?

Not unless the purpose of the thread is to perpetuate the error of humanism.

 

[YmirGF]

Then why, if someone calls someone else "Animal", they get offended?

Some also let out a low seductive growl too.

 

[Viker]

That all people are human.

True. And humans are a type of animal. That's not a negative thing. We are a part of nature like our animal kindred.

 

[Viker]

@InvestigateTruth - Why are we capitalizing "animal" in this thread? I've never seen it used as a proper noun, and both time you've used it, it did not begin a sentence.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Then why, if someone calls someone else "Animal", they get offended?

These days people seem to get offended at anything and everything.

I seems that the comparison is to animals not human. Animals we are, but we think pretty highly of ourselves as a group.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Then why, if someone calls someone else "Animal", they get offended?

That is a good point. Why animal with a capital A? What is that supposed to signify to us?