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by TallonRain 1547 days ago
Same here. As someone who has spent his life around many animals, either as pets or in the wild or other contexts, it’s very plain that humans are surrounded by respectably sentient creatures. It always floors me whenever people are shocked at the complex thoughts, emotions, behavior and planning capabilities of non-human animals. It really just seems fundamentally obvious if you bother to interact with other creatures long enough. Heck, I’ve run into way too many people who refuse to even acknowledge that we humans are animals as well and I feel this innate arrogance persists to our detriment.
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I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that a lot of people eat animals and so it makes them feel better ethically to see them as not having feelings or intelligence. Sometimes the animals they eat may actually be more intelligent than domesticated animals.
Human are there own folley thinking that they are the definition of intelligence. In years to come, we will realise how simple our physiology is, compared to the other creatures. Brain included.