“[Man IS an animal]”
“April1663: Man is not an animal!”
You rather a plant? Mineral?
“Man is a living soul!”
Maybe. I haven’t seen a soul or any reason to think it exists. I have seen man and animals bleed… And eat, and defecate, and mate….
“A dog does not know right or wrong. Dogs merely exist.”
Either you never owned a dog or you never trained her. But that has nothing to do with man being an animal or not.
“Man has a purpose!”
I’ve been told that all the animal shave a purpose, that’s why God made them so tasty.
“Jesus didn't come and die on the cross to save the whales!”
How does that make man NOT an animal?
“He died to save Mankind!”
So we’re SPECIAL animals, then?
“Man might have the same characteristics as a mammal, but we are not animals!”
Weird how we fit so very specifically into the tree of life, then. It’s not like we’re mammals except for our gills, or we’re primates except for having opposable eyes, or we’re apes except for gossamer wings.
“That kind of thinking and teaching is exactly why most of todays young people and teenagers are acting like animals.”
Humans are animals so EVERYTHING WE DO is ‘acting like an animal.’ Including rocketship astronauts, deep sea divers, certified public accountants….
“One cannot be expected to perform over what they have been taught!”
Hmmm. i was taught to believe in an invisible guy that lived on top of a solid sky. I outlived that.
“You teach a child that he is fat and he will think he is fat for the rest of his life!”
I got experimental baby formula. I was so fat that they couldn’t find my wristbone.
I got over that, too.
“ You teach a child that he is nothing more than a common animal and that is what he will become!”
No one ever said ‘common’ animal. That’s a connotation you add with no basis.
“katyanne: Yes good point Laura! I still struggle with how my parents used to tell me how stupid I was and I still a lot of times think I'm stupid.”
Well? Are you?
“If you are taught something that much you do end up believing it. I think you hit the nail on the head!”
Believing we’re animals does NOT automatically mean we can shit on the floor like puppies. We’re not THAT SORT of animal.