Poll: "What are you people, animals?!"

[pelopelopelo]

By animal, they mean savage. It's an idiom. Don't take it so literally. When someone says "I feel so dead!" they don't actually mean that their legs are stiff with rigormortis and their heart has stopped.

Well yes I understand this, but it is the sentiment behind it as well. I mentioned in a post earlier that the same can be seen in the name we've given ourselves - homo sapiens sapiens, the Really Wise Ape.

No, no we are not animals.
We are classified as animals, yes.
But Pterodactyls were also classified as a dinosaur, but they're technically not Dinosaurs, as they are only landwalkers.

We can talk.
They can not.
We are not animals

Pterosaurs, dinosaurs and others were all reptiles, of the class reptilia. A class of animals.

Let's say you have a box for triangles, a box for squares a tray for red bouncy balls and a tray for yellow ones. If you put a triangle in the box for squares, do the balls stop being bouncy?

And what about pre-speech humans? Did we stop being animals then, and if so, why does that fairly arbitrary boundary mean anything?

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Humans are a species of animal. But we're the only animals that are considered people.

Of course, we're only considered people by ourselves.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

We're in that grey area. In modern day society we really arent that animalistic, animals are generaly uncivil. humans are mostly civil, but when we're put in life or death situations we turn into selfish "animals".

Its rather hard to explain, and i dont feel like explaining it right now.

 

[pelopelopelo]

We're in that grey area. In modern day society we really arent that animalistic, animals are generaly uncivil. humans are mostly civil, but when we're put in life or death situations we turn into selfish "animals".

Its rather hard to explain, and i dont feel like explaining it right now.

Many ancient civilizations are considered 'barbaric' or 'animalistic' by todays standards. Being civil is wholly based on perception.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

We're in that grey area. In modern day society we really arent that animalistic, animals are generaly uncivil.

Uh, have you heard of social animals?

 

[martin's a madman]

The only thing that really separates any animal from a superior or inferior one is capacity. Whether we like it or not, everything we do serves the same objective any animal has. Increase the population, Advance the species, keep the species from dying. Some animals (Humans) are able to do this comfortably, while others have a constant struggle to keep from going extinct.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

We are animals, just we're the top ones. People tend to forget the fact that no matter how civilized we are, we still go into the same creature category as squirrels and monkeys.

Some of us more than others, man.

Some of us more than others.

 

[Xanadeas]

I see humans as animals... Because we /are/ animals. Just less hairy than some and a little more insane than others. I mean... Seriously. We belong to the kingdom animalia. ANIMALS. We sure as hell aren't plants, are we?

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[WayOutThere]

yep, humans are animals

the only diffrence between us and other animals is one of degree

Some people find this fact disturbing, for reasons I don't understand.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

No, no we are not animals.
We are classified as animals, yes.
But Pterodactyls were also classified as a dinosaur, but they're technically not Dinosaurs, as they are only landwalkers.

We can talk.
They can not.
We are not animals

Art
Language
Tool use
and self aware abstraction?

 

[Haunted Serenity]

Yes we are except that we are the most advanced on this planet that we know of.

 

[The DSM]

We are, but dont heed the words of the dolphins, so we are going to die.

And theyll sing about Thanking us for fish.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[AnneSQF]

You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals - Bloodhound Gang

 

[Scumpernickle]

Of course we are animals, we're not plants or fungi are we?

 

[Pimppeter2]

Yes, being at the top of the food chain, we can call ourselves whatever we want. We are the superiors.

You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals - Bloodhound Gang

Also this

 

[Cimerax]

Well, seeing that we ARE actually animals, I guess I do see us as animals.

 

[Urgh76]

your avatar is perfect for this

OT: yes, humans are just animals and all of our thoughts and beliefs are based upon genetic code which can be understood over time

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

We're in that grey area. In modern day society we really arent that animalistic, animals are generaly uncivil.

Uh, have you heard of social animals?

Have you ever heard of the definition of general. I know that not all animals are, well, "animals". But a good amount of them are.