Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Saying that they differ does not make it so. You will not find a trait shared by all of the other apes that you do not have yourself Amounts do not count. You probably have just as many hairs as a chimpanzee. Theirs are merely longer and thicker than what you have.We instinctively understand (as humans are the only ones who are conscious of reality), that humans and apes are fundamentally different. They differ in anatomy, genetics, intellect, and in countless other ways.
Stop the exaggeration; even if an academic chooses to classify humans and apes together for didactic purposes, it doesn't alter reality at all: both are very different, one is an unconscious animal and the other is far superior, an intelligent conscious being... Even a child can perceive that.
And I can argue that humans are conscious of the similarity of men and other apes. That is shown by how people disparage others racially. You will find that cultures often compare their enemies and rivals to apes and monkeys. They do not compare them to giraffes or lions. It is apes and monkeys more than anything else. The one thing that the other apes lack compared to humans is intelligence. That is why you probably feel insulted when it is point out that you are an ape. You instinctively feel that people are insulting your intelligence when they are merely pointing out what biological category that you are in.