Animal Paper

Explain and analyse the most important of the 6 cultural obstacles to seeing ourselves as animals - explain and analyse the most important of the 4 benefits of seeing ourselves as animals for living a good and meaningful life. Conclude with your perspective, perhaps including additional obstacles and/or benefits. Please speak your own truth.

Once humans are able to accept that we are also animals our lives will become more meaningful and we would live better lives. We would live better lives because we wouldn't be ashamed of our bodies and the way we act. It should be illegal for humans to walk out in public without clothes on since everything is natural and animals do it. When people act a little crazy and start yelling they should not be looked at weird because animals will growl and make all types of noises. Humans are animals so this is natural and should not be considered unhuman. Animals are treated like when humans they are put into solitary confinement in prison. The animals are locked up naked and given food every once in a while everyday.

Before learning about animals I never really considered humans as animals. We are very similar in many ways because we have to do the same type of things to survive. Animals and humans both must eat, clean themselves and also have families that they live with and must take care of. No one really knows how animals really think and what goes through their mind so they may think like us but we wouldn't know. Someone might say that animals and humans are not the same because they can not communicate and talk, but if you take two people from different countries that can't speak the same language they can't really communicate and understand each other either. The only way they sort of could communicate is with hand gestures and pictures. Animals sometimes can understand us through gestures also. For example if you are trying to get an animal away and you cock your hand back they will sometimes understand and will get away.