Humans. Warm-blooded vertebrates that have live young & produce milk.
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To act in a manner appropriate to a lower form of being is inappropriate for a higher being.
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There is nothing unreasonable about that claim. It is true, in fact.
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If a human male went about humping legs like a male dog, it would be INAPPROPRIATE human conduct.
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Such a man would be either arrested or institutionalized.
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It is entirely reasonable to expect human conduct of human beings, and not of irrational animals.
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It would absurd to expect irrational animals, e.g. to obey the law, or to prosecute them for crimes.
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Are suggesting we follow the example of the residents of Erwin, TN in 1916, & hang elephants for murder?
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This is, for reason's Eve is gesturing at, a vast misunderstanding. Plato, e.g. both defined us ->
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*as* animals (of a kind) and pointed out ways in which we differ from *other* animals morally. ->
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To claim we are *different* from other animals (we are) is in no way to infer that we aren't animals
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I can literally think of no major philosophical thinker who was willing to claim we weren't animals.
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But very many who divided the spiritual from the bestial. Augustine springs to mind. Sapientia & scientia
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It depends what you mean. "The spiritual" very particularly defined *is* our specific difference.
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I'd say brains were. Yes. And consistently see a need to mortify the flesh & strengthen the spirit.
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No one today or in the past is referring to "brains" when they speak of "the spirit". The...
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