Dear Mr. Rifkin,
I really enjoyed reading your article about the way people perceive animals and how we should treat them better. Animals are very important to the advancement of man we need them and they need us to survive,the bond between humans and animals could and should be better with the way we treat, and care for them so that we can ensure a more humane and natual relationship with them. However I cannot see animals being like us at all. I understand all of the studies you've made references to but I still dont believe it. Teaching a monkey to do tricks does not mean that it is almost as smart as a human. I can teach my dog to sit at two months old but I doubt a human baby could even understand what I'm meaning. Does that make my dog smarter? NO. Its just a trick that only takes a few weeks to do. People develop way more rapidly than any other speices and people may argue that we are more empathetic than animals and i do believe that. People dont eat other people, well most people, but animals eat other animals just by that you can tell that people are more empathetic. Now i know that people can kill other people but usually it has some sort of justification, but when animals kill its to survive. It's sort of barbaric and it is not very humane. I also believe that people are individualistic than animals. We can survive by our selves, while animals usually count on groups to provide. It makes sense that people could see how animals are similar to how they live compared to us. We can feel love they can feel love, they can hate we can hate, they feel pain and so do we. The similarities are very close but not the same. The fact that people are more intelectually advanced just puts humans so much further ahead than animals and makes me think that we are way more empathetic and better overall.
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