Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Let's be obscure:


No species sees its own as just another species, but as a standard, as normal, as individuals. To a dog, all cats and all humans are just that - cats and humans. He will recognise different individuals, but they are all the same to him. A dog is something more, a person, a person with which he is in competition with, with which he has intimite relationships with, persons governed by the same passions as he himself. The only species of the same ontological plane as him, above, at least separate from, all other animals. so much so, that one can wonder if a dog recognises himself as an animal.

Humans are so accustomed to seeing humans as individuals - to focus on slightly different hairlines, eyes, facial expressions, the recognition of all which is hardwired - that it is easy to not see that we are just an animal like all the others. An ape, just another ape. These pictures should hopefully confuse the reader:
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How many of the above are human?

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One of them is not human:
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It is that poor mutated hairless chimp in the last picture.

A mutation that several hundred thousand years ago became dominant in humans.
Oh come on, number one isn't human, two I can believe, and three clearly is human.