I was thinking more that the question is what you find valuable.
If building buildings, writing, reading, are valuable, then of course there is a vast difference.
But if you see those things as merely minor aspects of a life, and that the important things in life are the drive toward reproduction and survival of the species, we are very little different from the beasts.
And if you want to consider the ability naturally to survive in an environment with nothing but your own self, beasts are well ahead of us -- they are much better adapted to surviving without houses, clothing, fires, tools, etc. than we are. Plunk almost any human being down in the middle of a wilderness bare ass naked in the depth of winter and we are unlikely to survive. Do the same to a moose, or a mouse, or an ant, ant they are much more likely to survive.
Just depends on what you're looking at.
It just depends on what aspects |
