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Does our ability to train animals make us superior to them?

Does our ability to train animals make us superior to them? | DOGS WHERE DOMESTICATED FROM WOLVES BEFORE HORSE AND OXEN WERE. THEY WERE TRAINED IN EURASIA BY HAVING THEM PULL SLEDS. THESE SLEDS WERE ORIGINALLY PULLED BY HUMANS. WE ABSTRACTED OUR OWN GREAT CAPACITY FOR WORK TO THAT OF ANIMALS. | image tagged in small fact frog | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
633 views 17 upvotes Made by anonymous 4 years ago in The_Think_Tank
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2 ups, 4y
Awesome fact!
3 ups, 4y,
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Yes, that and other things, make us superior to them
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2 ups, 4y,
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What other things?
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We're created in the image of God
We can create things
Math
Written language
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2 ups, 4y,
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Ah, so we would be greater than robots. We are greater than the fictions we imagine. Not so much questions as thing to make us question our place.
0 ups, 4y
yes
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Both animals and humans give their labour for the most part for minimal food & shelter / money in modern society.
So feelings of superiority over animals should be far from our minds.
We are both essentially beasts of burden in the modern world.
Some would also argue that we keep animals workers essentially as prisoners but we too are tethered to the modern world ( there are very few people living living ‘FREE’ lives ).
We have been domesticated too, if there is any superiority it is incrementally small.

Peace.
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2 ups, 4y,
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well yes, I guess
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Had not intended to beg the question. But thanks for answering with feeling.

I was curious if given the premise if the meme there was a counterargument. I wanted to suggest that animals give us our work ethic. But that kind of difficult title would have had the submission passed over.

We are kind of dealing with Big Brother to provide our beliefs. Its kind of old school to even contemplate the innate relation to other kinds of living beings.

Sorry for ear full.
0 ups, 4y
ooo ok
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Yes, which is the same with all other organisms because we are the image-bearers of God (Genesis 1:26) which is manifested in our intelligence and our ability to create.

We do not have fathest eye sight, we're not the fastest, nor are we the strongest; we cannot fly, have the best night vision, have the best natural camouflage, and yet we became the most dominate of all creation.

On a one-on-one basis we cannot contend against a lion or a bear, but we can far better coordinate an attack or a defense against them.

But there is one exception, before the industrial revolution we could not dominate over mosquitoes, ticks, and other potentially deadly parasites. Now we can obliterate the world nuchear weapons if we really wanted to. We can create the most destructive bomb and possibly wipe out all living things.
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DOGS WHERE DOMESTICATED FROM WOLVES BEFORE HORSE AND OXEN WERE. THEY WERE TRAINED IN EURASIA BY HAVING THEM PULL SLEDS. THESE SLEDS WERE ORIGINALLY PULLED BY HUMANS. WE ABSTRACTED OUR OWN GREAT CAPACITY FOR WORK TO THAT OF ANIMALS.