Is a human just an animal? Deep down does everyone just want

No, althought that makes a great part of being human. I thinnk spirituality is something which separates us from mere animals.

>>39510694
I'm not sure how you can explain altruism if you believe that

Yes and no. We are animals in that we must abide by the physical nature of our existence; we must grow, we must die, we must consume and excrete to survive, we are limited in our ability to understand concepts outside of our natiral perception, and so on.

But we are also more, we have the ability to create and destroy, to make art and to travel great distances, to erect enormous civilizations. We are embued with both an intelligence and an individuality that fosters great potential.

>>39510694
anything below 100iq, surely

>>39510694
Humans are animals, with the spark of intelligence. The animal part is what drives us, but the intelligence part is what lets us realize that and frees us from it, if we want to be free of it.

>tl;dr we are animals with a choice

>Is a human just an animal?
Yeah. Like, obviously. Also the top of the food chain, the animal with the highest cognitive abilities and ability to change it's surroundings. But we're just bags of flesh and bone with chemical reactions that create a consciousness that makes us think we're somehow more than just organic material floating in space.

>>39510694
>Deep down does everyone just want to eat and fuck?

I want to fuck the hole a woman eats with.

Fucking and eating are good, but there are better things than both.

>ywn eat and fuck at the same time

People like to be warm too, hence why in Britain we evacuate abroad for the summer for said warmth which our dumb climate doesn't provide

>>39510694
>Deep down does everyone just want to eat and fuck?
I want to fuck both ends of a woman's digestive system

>>39510694
Self-awareness is nature's way of making sure no species gets too intelligent.

>>39510694
yes, if you look at human behovarial patterns from a macrobiological point of view it becomes clear we are just pre-programmed biomechanical computers with every our thought being controlled by base instincts

the real tragedy however is us being also self-aware AKA able to look at our thoughts and acts from an abstract point of view (to a varying degree)

>>39511038
Why is that a tragedy?