Chimporillas? Paracrows? Hugoats? Never.

by Angela K. Durden 

Within the alphabets of the worlds populations exist all possible expressed thought; yet individual letters, of and by themselves, are null and void. Within dictionaries lie all the words known to mankind, but is there a reason to read one from cover to cover?

Alphabets and dictionaries tell no tales, convey no coherent thought, take us on no journeys, do not entertain, do not make us contemplate, and do not challenge preconceived notions.

Building blocks

However, they are the atoms, bytes, and genes of higher thought. Without them, we would be no more than beasts of the field searching for tidbits of our next meal. Sniffing under rocks and rooting under downed trees. Victims of momentary need. Casualties of sudden storm. Led by hormones.

Some say, and I would not disagree with them, that more humans than not act like those animals with nary a thought of the future. What is a plan? What is a choice? These people do not know.

Yet, humans are the ones who have protected animals. Humans house and feed animals; not the other way around. Humans take animals to veterinarians for treatment. Never does a dog take a human to the doctor and pay its owner’s bill.

Reasonable people see these as self-evident truths: Humans reason, plan, think, question, build, and test. Animals simply exist within the confines of embedded nature.

Some animals can use tools; for instance, chimps get termites out of holes using a stick. Some can communicate with humans, Koko for only one. Cats, dogs, and birds say Mama. From these few examples, connection to the human genome is inferred. “See,” they say, “Tools and language. Strictly human traits. Animals are humans.”

Differences

But there are structural differences that have been maintained through many thousands of generations of animals and humans. There are plenty who study the differences between the two, who recognize the differences, but who will jump through hoops to explain it all away because to accept the thousands of years of genetic stability in humans and animals is to reject evolution and they just cannot bring themselves to do that.

Throughout history humans have had sexual contact with animals. I don't get it and yeah, ewwww. But have you ever seen a hudog or a huchicken or a hugoat? No. For the same reason that between animal species the stable gene path does not make chimporillas or paracrows.

Planet of the Apes will never happen because the human brain is unique among all creation; that isn’t going to change, and it won’t change, and it hasn’t changed in all recorded history.  

Congratulations. You are not an animal.

You, reading this article, are not animal. You are human. You're gene sequence makes it so. Atoms and genes, building blocks of humans, are so powerful they can make billions of absolutely unique individuals. 

Of course, this article does nothing to address the fact that many people act like animals, but personally I think that is insulting to animals who have no choice in how they act.

But you’ll let me know if your cat has an opinion on this, right? (Make sure Cat signs in under its own email addy before commenting. Does Cat have its own credit card? If yes, please let Cat know to buy my books.)

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