Monday, June 09, 2008

Debate in the Blood

You know what argument I am just sick of hearing?
"Humans are the only animal that ______"

Humans are the only animal that doesn't sleep with their young.
Humans are the only animal that wears shoes.
Humans are the only animal that doesn't fling poo at intruders.

It's just a ridiculous fallacy that just because other animals do it, that nature intended it that way. Humans are blessed with intelligence, wit, and shame these are notably absent in the animal world - thus we should be relieved of these expectations. So I don't want to hear anymore about it.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word
itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words -
"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's
why so is mankind.
- Jack Handey

3 comments:

LJ said...

JACK HANDEY!!!!!

dave said...

So your post prompted me to do a quick search of “humans are the only animal that_” on the interweb. Here are some of the best results.
Humans are the only animals that:

Tell lies :(

Drink milk from another animal (which is a good point)

Kill their own kind, make war, rape (somebody doesn’t watch the
discovery channel)

Trip twice over the same rock

Can talk all day long about nothing really important

Follow unstable, emotional leaders around the world (um…what about the butterflies?)

Carry shovels around with them

Wear hats

Have chronic back pain

Have invented underwear

Banana said...

My sentiments exactly. I'm proud of being the only animal that...