Are We Mere Animals?

Are we mere animals?
Even though we have evolved are we still just animals or are we more?
I think that we are more but also less since we can adapt more than all other animals have but we still destroy each other to gain lands and wealth. You may say that animals do the same for land but in fact they do not kill they simply duel to show that one is stronger. So again are we animals? Yes, we are but we have adapted in ways other animals have not. Since we are "smarter" should we use our adaptability to destroy more like the crazy animal that we sometimes are or should we learn not to destroy each other and strive by bringing us further than our fellow animals. We should show that we are smart and learn to live in peace without war.

When other humans fall do we feel happy or do we mourn them?
 Most times we mourn our fallen but unlike other animals sometimes we are joyous when people die since we wanted them to die. All other animals honor their dead even when they were bad because they can remember when that animal was good to them even if only one time. In this case animals are better than us so it stands 1:0 for the animals.

Why do we go corrupt?
We go corrupt because of our greed for money and land. We are not born evil but we are made evil by our actions and the influences that others give us. Think of it like this "a boy gets bullied all the time by a group of people, then when that boy is a adult and he has power he will most likely bully them back but by then his hatred might want them to die and he will do something that he later on does not want to do." I have a question for you: if I were to ask you if you would steal food or work hard for it if you were poor now you would say that you would work for it but if you were in that situation 9 out of 10 people would steal the food since they think that one little thing won't be missed, but if everyone in the world were to steal one thing how much would be missing? If this were an animal it would go out and find something if it had to but it wouldn't since most animals work together to feed and they share what they have. So it's 2:0 for the animals.

So you must be getting tired of the animals beating us human so let's talk about adaptability. The ability to adapt is what helps animals and humans alike to survive, but who can do it better. We humans have adapted further than any animal, but can we also do it faster? If animals face a problem such as a huge body of water and they can't swim it would take thousands even millions of years for them to adapt gills and swim. But we humans in just a few years could adapt so that we could build a ship and go over. So now it is 2:1, but still the animals are ahead.

Although animals have certain ways of communicating, to our knowledge they haven't developed advancements that humans have. One of the most important advancement is our ability to read and write. With this ability, we can communicate to other humans without physically being there. As simple as leaving a note to confirm your whereabouts can be considered  more advanced than any animal communication. Yes, animals have ways of leaving "notes" for each other such as scratches in the dirt, but in the end finding ways of universal communication is more useful. Other than reading and writing, humans have developed other ways of communicating with multiple races and ethnicities, something that separate species of animals have not. Humans all speak different languages, but we have certain gestures and symbols that are recognized worldwide. For example, anyone would know what someone meant by smiling or frowning. By communication, it's safe to say animals are less evolved than we are, which ties the score 2:2.

Treatment of ones kind.
Humans have gotten better at this but they used to class people by religion and skin color, but have animals done this too. Runts are outcasts driven away by their own family and albinos are left to die because they would give away their family if something was hunting them and because they wouldn't survive anyway. In this we are tied so it is still 2:2 for the animals.

After all this who do you think is better? Animals or Humans? And are we just like animals in the end?