kashmaster said:
Why are we the same as animals we can be classified as animals because we 'evolved' from the same thing and have the same features to a certain extent but thats when it stops.
We are much more intelligient compared to them. We have more developed emotions. We can understand beyond their comprehension.
I don't see animals comparable in that sense to us. Yes they live in communities like us, they help us but we are by far more superior.
We are so much more different to animals. I don't understand why you try and argue an animal is comparable to our intelligience.
We have varied languages, we can create atomic bombs and super computers and so on.
I think your right when you say everyone has the ability to trick themselves yet very few pick the right choice...
Also on another subject, we are one of the most dependant beings in this world.
We have to become quite an age before we can leave our mothers. We depend entirely on animals for survival. We need their skins, bones and meat.
If we evolved why do we need such items. Why did we lose most of our hair? People in the cold countries shouldn't have evolved.
Ok, this almost looks like you don't have respect for animals. Let me explain a few things:
You said we are way way smarter than any other animal, well that's kinda true, but a dog is way way smarter too than a snail... But we're almost the same like apes. Chimpanzees are almost the same as us. We are smarter because we can teach things to other people. Primates don't do that, they life together and need eachother to survive, but they don't teach each other things, after all they are a bit more individual;
I've seen a documentairy about primates a few weeks ago. It was about a box and you had to press lots of different buttons and such and finally you could take a candy out. There was a person who showed how the box worked in front of a child and a chimpanzee (not in the same room ofcourse). They both did the same the person did in order to obtain the candy. Then they did the same thing with a box made out of glass, and it revealed it wasn't necessary to press all those buttons ad such. The human child did the same as first, it repeated everything the person did to and obtained the candy. However, the chimpanzee saw immediately it was unnecessary to do all those things (box of glass), and went straight for the candy. This means 2 things; the chimpanzee is smarter than the child cuz it knew how the box worked, but at the same time, the human child did the same as the person and learned something... (this was typed after the piece below, so bit weird order) but another explanation here:
Next question; if they don't teach each other we could teach them and they should be as smart as us, right? No, because i.e. chimpanzees don't have one important feature which is very important by teaching; I don't know how it's called but you can see it as a triangle. A triangle which forms between you (the one who teaches), the person (who suposed to learn something) and the object/happening (where the person can learn from). If the teacher, you in this example, points to something where the chimpanzee has to put its atention to, he doens't understand. He can only make a ''invisible'' line between you and him and the object/happening and him, not the line between you and the object/happening, that's the missing feature, apart from that they're the same as humans.
And why we lost our fur is because, like Heavenly Spoon already said, our origins are in Africa, hot climate, so we didn't need the fur. We also discovered fire to keep us warm and making clothes from other animals, especially neede in the colder north, and so we were able to survive in almost any environment...
pfff.... long post, hope this makes some clear despite my bad english
