In our cosmopolitan world man is mature enough to discredit any comparison with animals. ... Animals do not have any curiosity or will to evolve. ... Aunts, birds and other animals have only the knowledge that enables them to survive. ... If one considers the human fears and instincts then one cannot blame humanity for its greed. ... Animals, deprived of any instinct of evolution have no sense of war. ...
We do not realize that the instinct to react violently could easily transfer to harming other people, not just bugs or animals. ... The narrator in the short story written by Howard Fast titled "The Large Ant " kills a creature which resembles an ant, and kills the creature without clear intentions, out of pure instinct... Basic human instincts invoked the murder of the creature. ...
However, the main separation between humans and all other animals is the ability to reason. ... Man is the only animal marked by his thirst for blood and body mutilation. ... Wrangham and Peterson state, "That chimpanzees and humans kill member of neighboring groups of their own species is . . . a startling exception to the normal rule for animals". ... So animals were good because they only did what came naturally. ... Animals cannot, they just do what is in there instinct. ...
Swift uses the creature of the "Yahoo" from the land of the "Houyhnhms", to question animal instinct within human nature, asking why people kill and commit acts of violence. ... "Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I last concluded that they must be magicians" (Page 249, Paragraph 2) In this case, "Houyhnhms" (horses) are completely rational, resulting in complete confusion for Gulliver. ... "My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal a human figure: the face of it indeed ...
However, the main separation between humans and all other animals is the ability to reason. ... Man is the only animal marked by his thirst for blood and body mutilation. ... Wrangham and Peterson state, "That chimpanzees and humans kill member of neighboring groups of their own species is . . . a startling exception to the normal rule for animals". ... So animals were good because they only did what came naturally. ... Animals cannot, they just do what is in there instinct. ...
This theory extends to all walks of life; for instance happiness is achieved in the animal kingdom through sustenance and survival (among other things). ... Primitive instincts of survival are even governed by perceptions of virtue. ... All humans and animals seek out pleasure and even good, virtuous people indulge accordingly so it obviously cannot be "sinful". ... Aristotle argues that morality is not an automatic response triggered by inborn human survival instincts. ...
It is this and the superiority of our intellect and emotions that separate humans from animals. As humans, we seek to mean in our lives, whereas animals or other specifies simply survive with nothing to look forward to. Humans can develop intense, complicated emotions, and think beyond our basic instincts. ...
