In The Gentlemen of the Jungle, the natural beings, the animals all go against the one human character. ... In The Gentlemen of the Jungle, the threat to the human is a natural being, they are animals that live in the forest, since there is many animals and but one human, the animals take advantage of the human. ... The jury was full of only animals and the judge was also an animal. The jury listens to the elephant and the man, and after they do, the man's story was supposed to make him not guilty, however, knowing that the man was innocent the jury charged him guilty because he was human...

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I understand why some believe this, because in the animal world this is the only goal that is aspired to. But Humans are not animals; we are capable of free thought, logical thinking, several languages to communicate our perceptions with, and an assorted variety of other skills particular to our genus. ... Im sure that that is part of the picture, but I doubt if it could be all that we are to do, or supposed to do. ... We are all individuals with individual minds, so maybe we are all supposed to worry about ourselves. ...

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The basic storyline of A.I. is that a group of scientists create a little Mecca (mechanical) boy who is supposedly supposed to "have a mind". ... "If it is justifiable to assume that other human beings feel pain as we do, is there any reason why a similar inference should not be justifiable in the case of other animals?"... Speciesism is a belief that we humans discriminate members of other species, like simple animals. ... Singer argues against right-to-life activists with his statement, "Christianity makes a huge gulf between humans and animals, saying humans have souls but animals do not. T...

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