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08-13-2007, 09:35 PM
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This thread is still active lol. NO ANIMAL's ARE NOT HUMANS! They are K-9's and Felines and other stuff ending in ine's! But they are not humans.
Biggest reason of all they are not classed the same as Humans are, Therefor they are not humans.
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This thread is still active lol. NO ANIMAL's ARE NOT HUMANS! They are K-9's and Felines and other stuff ending in ine's! But they are not humans.
Biggest reason of all they are not classed the same as Humans are, Therefor they are not humans.
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I don't know Locke, sometimes humans have more animalistic and carnal tendencies than the animals. We might not class them as humans, but that doesn't stop us from being animals.
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08-14-2007, 01:04 AM
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Some animals have "personalities", but none are as deep and meaningful as those of people. I honestly don't understand why some people think that life of an animal (a non-human animal...) is as valuable as the life of a human. Guess it's one of those things I'll just never get!
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08-14-2007, 01:17 AM
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08-14-2007, 01:20 AM
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I don't know Locke, sometimes humans have more animalistic and carnal tendencies than the animals. We might not class them as humans, but that doesn't stop us from being animals.
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What most people preseive a "animal" to be is a living self aware organism. So yes humans do infact classify as a animal. But animals do not classify as human, just like how human's do no classify as fellines. Also when used in a sentence commonly the word animal referse to a other non Human speicies. That is not to say that we are not animals, Cause i for one am a beast. 
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08-14-2007, 12:43 PM
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08-14-2007, 02:53 PM
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tell us, dellgines, how you know this.
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08-14-2007, 06:07 PM
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The difference between people and animals is in the ability of people to think about thought and the ability to think abstractly. Animals do not have this ability. Animals can learn, have personalities and other individualistic characteristics but they can not think about thought. In other words they are a lower conscious, they have no ability to be self-reflecting, and this is what a primary definition of 'personhood' is.
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How do you know they don't have that ability? They can't tell you. You can only assume things. Your inference could be completely wrong.
They could be self-reflecting in front of your face and you couldn't possibly know it.
If you couldn't talk, how do you think you would be acting? Do you think it would affect your behaviour?
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08-15-2007, 01:47 AM
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The difference between people and animals is in the ability of people to think about thought and the ability to think abstractly. Animals do not have this ability. Animals can learn, have personalities and other individualistic characteristics but they can not think about thought. In other words they are a lower conscious, they have no ability to be self-reflecting, and this is what a primary definition of 'personhood' is.
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I agree with Scots Chick there, you can't prove that animals do not have higher brain function nor that they are incapable of abstract thought. Also, humans come under the class of 'animals', so if animals are unable to have abstrat thought, then shouldn't we be unable?
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08-16-2007, 06:42 PM
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Psychology and research.
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