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Well, from a purely scientific perspective, we *are* animals. If you ascribe to evolution, that's all we are. Our brains may be more advanced (though I suppose even that's arguable in some cases) but really, that's what we are.
Now, if you ascribe to the alien Annunaki creating us as genetically engineered, that's different... it might explain the war in our brains.
I won't say we don't have the capacity for thought beyond what we understand most animals to have, but that in itself does not remove us from the 'animal' category. It just makes our 'higher' thought processes at odds with our 'base' thought processes and instincts, which I think is part of the problem we're at.
I would argue we are in transition, our brains still clinging to the old ways while we try to force our intellect into the new. Our wiring tells us how to act and we either bow to these urges or force ourselves to rise above them. The very act of fighting against our instinct is perhaps the one thing we can truly claim as being human.
I just had a thought: Why did uncle Ben even tell Peter Parker that? He didn't know he had superpowers! To his uncle, he was just the down on luck nephew who he was dropping off at the library.
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