MAN AS A FAILED ANIMAL
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Man is defined as including both sexes. It is convenient only to consider the singular word with a capital letter.

Man is but one of many different animals. Although Man considers himself 'above' the other animals, this is pure conjecture on his part. Unfortunately we can't ask other animals their opinion, should they wish to give it.

This essay is not meant to be an indictment of Man, purely a response to a meaning of Man.

As I see it, it is understandable to look at Man from a point of view that does not include Man himself; that is, the animal Man needs to be looked at from an objective point of view. I am therefore looking at the animal Man from a view outside the fact that I am such a human animal.

So, what am I? I am not a god of any description. Gods were invented by Man to satisfy certain needs. Needs are not wants, by the way.

The notion of a god does not enter this essay. A god is subjective, not objective. Relying on the notion of a god is a belief, not a fact, except in the belief that it is a fact.

I take the position of an alien. Describe this entity how you will. It is merely taking another point of view that precludes any shape or form of objectivism you may wish to imply.

From a distant point but with full view of the earth, I offer this essay about Man.

Man developed skills along with other animals. Somewhere along the line of this development, Man acquired certain skills which made him different from the other animals. One of those skills was the development of self-awareness. This is not to say that other animals failed to develop these skills. In fact there is evidence that they did but at other levels.

The particular skills that Man developed was the ability to reason. Reason is the ability to adapt to the enviromnet in different wasy from other animals. This did not mean that he was superior to the other animals but that he adapted to his environment in his own way. At the same time of acquiring these particular skills, he lost others. He was therefore vulnerable to the mores of other animals and adapted to protect himself from them is danger to his life ensued.

Thus Man developed techniques to either fend himself off from attack and create a means to attack others for his food, shelter, well-being and survival.

Given those capabilities, Man developed skills to be able to control other animals for his own purposes.

What we call 'Nature', was therefore becoming able to be controlled by Man's 'ingenuity'.

Given that Man developed skills other than those of other animals, the so-called predators, he was able to grow and procreate until he became the dominant creature.

This is a moot point, however, since there are many other creatures that lived before and will live after Man has expired on this planet (e.g. insects).

To be able to survive, and having lost a great deal of his physical strength, Man developed what is called the 'brain'. Not really larger than a lot of other animals, this 'brain' however, became powerful enough to overcome the difficulties of living and surviving at the time.



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