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> Agenda for a New America
> Part One
> The Politics of Vegetarianism
> By Vasu Murti
> Chapter 3 - Reasoning Ability
>
> What separates humans from the other animals? Psychologist Paul Chance
> struggles with this problem in the January 1988 issue of Psychology
> Today. The ancient Greeks considered man "the rational animal." Recent
> studies prove animals do many of the same things we consider evidence
> of reasoning ability. Chimpanzees, for example, can solve puzzles on
> their own, in much the same way as humans, and will even do it for no
> other reward than the mere satisfaction of having done it.
>
> Does creativity set us apart from nature? Porpoises can be trained not
> just to perform tricks, but to invent tricks of their own. Making
> tools? Animal behaviorist Jane Goodall observed wild Chimpanzees use
> toolmaking in obtaining food. Language? Two psychologists in Nevada
> taught a chimp named Washoe the sign language of the deaf. Not Only
> did Washoe learn hundreds of signs, he used them in new ways to
> express new ideas. Sign language has been taught to other chimpanzees
> and to gorillas and orangutans as well.
>
> The negative traits of humanity have also been observed in the animal
> kingdom. humans may rape, murder and go to war with greater efficiency
> and intellectual prowess than other species, but these are not
> uniquely human acts. Male apes have been seen forcing themselves upon
> unwilling females of their kind.
>
> Apes have been known to attack and kill members of their own tribe, as
> well as outsiders, sometimes for trivial reasons. Goodall has even
> observed organized battles between rival troops of chimpanzees that
> can accurately be called wars.
>
> Dr. Chance suggests that it is the human quest to find a quality which
> separates us from the rest of creation which really appears to set us
> apart. We are the only creature struggling to find its identity, the
> only creature asking, "How am I different from all the other
> creatures?" Beyond survival, eating, sleeping, mating and basic bodily
> maintenance, humans seek to knew their origin, the past, the universe
> around them and the future. Only we humans ask such questions and
> appear to have any interest in the answers.
>
> As far as everyday ethics are concerned, there are no morally relevant
> differences between humans ant the rest of animal kingdom. The one
> quality which distinguishes humans from other species appears to be
> spiritual: man's desire to find his place in the universe, his
> relationship with God. This is irrelevant as far as the oppression,
> enslavement, torment and annihilation of creatures like ourselves is
> concerned. If anything, the theistic position of "human dominion"
> remands that humans show greater justice and mercy towards animals. As
> far as suffering is concerned, the animals are our equals.
>
> swiped from http://www.all-creatures.org/article...i-polveg3.html