Can you please please clarify by “practical use” and “popular use”? And if you feel comfortable explain why thise 2 uses feel we (people) are different than animals.
Im not trolling, i am genuinely trying to wrap my head around the logic some folks think humans are not animals. It seems more and more people are leaning this way and I dont understand why unless its ego based (which includes religion in this situation i think).
The examples given above are almost all an insulting form of the word animal. Assuming its not negative to be one Calling someone an animal is just the wrong use of the word. Some examples perhaps. Retard, fag, bitch, cunt, dick, asshole etc and so many other rude things try to degrade someones worth.
I am not saying i am against insults per se. in fact they are useful tools, sure. However they arent real life implications when asking.someone a direct question without any hostility…like are we animals. on the level of honest mature conversation, a female dog is a bitch much like we are animals. But i notice the same kind of egotistical separation that doesnt seem warranted in the case of animal which i am incredibly curious about. Especially amongst those who think themselves educated, woke or whatever and this egocentric importance still somehow shines through. I am very curious as to how and why one may think we are not animals in a literal sense.
To those, I ask, if not an animal that what are we? Plants, rocks, viruses, gods? This kind of demigod status we ascribe seems to explain a lot of what we are seeing wrong with the world today, and yet we just cant get past our ego. This is the arena i am thinking about with this poll.
Edit : ( wrote this before your expanded response). I’m not trolling either, I’m just trying to wrap my head around the difficulty in comprehension here. I’m pretty sure everyone has observed that humans are part of the animal kingdom.
The fact that we can make that observation -and- have hundreds of languages through which to express it to one another, that any one human is capable of learning any one of those languages, sometimes multiples, and is the only species of anything on this muddy little rock that can do so, suggests that we get to call ourselves whatever we want. We made all the words anyhow.
Yes. Pain is god’s way of reminding us that we are animals.
I just read that recently and have totally spaced on where and who wrote it. btw “god” in this sense is whatever natural forces that bubbled along out of the big bang, gave us space, matter gravity and then time and then allowed for the evolution of the senses to take note of them.
I loved it back in Canada when i would spend about $100nt for a 4" pot of this cute little thing that didnt die as easy as a venus fly trap. Come here and have to machete through 2 meter high plants thick as blackberry with equally skin tearing spines…i hate the stuff. I think this is the plant monsanto was having night sweats over that lead to round up. Tomorrow i have 2 acres of the crap to cut down, and in 38 degrees the hate is real.
Sorry, strange rant in an animal thread. Take home point: Plants move too.