RE: Are wild animals individuals or interchangeable parts?

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Are wild animals individuals or interchangeable parts?

in politics •  8 years ago 

I found your writing very interesting and insightful. Of all living creatures, probably not more than one in 10 million is a human being-a biological rarity actually. However, humans dominate the earth even with their small number of members. I feel that the human race(or species) feels their dominance mainly because of speech. Other animals cannot talk and communicate as us, therefore, we are superior. Humans also see the methods animals use and, since they are different, conclude they are inferior. Most people live with wild animals and respect them, but do not fully realize their value in the world.

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The actual relative numbers of types of animals are staggering. See the chart in this article. http://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-there/

I think you're right about speech -- if I recall correctly there were some sociologists like George Herbert Mead who pushed the view that symbolic communication was what made humans superior, and that really stuck unfortunately.