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I cannot believe or accept that the only difference would be opposable thumbs!
Yes, animals can have distinct personalities, intelligence, and emotion. But our methods of communication can take our ideas, values, and potential to a much broader range of methods to exist. We don't simply exist within the instinctual survival behaviours and patterns that animals opperate with.
If you take both animals and humans down to primal levels, humans are extremely complex when you consider our vulnerablilities to primal desires and fears (e.g. sexual drives and death). Much of our behaviour seems to be centred around maintaining or controling these aspects. We strive to find ways to feel secure with ourselves and our existance.
Hmmm, I might even go as far to say that in some way, humans deny life... that in my mind makes us different to animals.
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To those who wander but who are not lost...
~ Knowledge is not something you acquire, it is something you open yourself to.
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