After reading these reviews I must comment on this.

First of all, I find that all of the people that have reviewed so far have not been fair.

There are most definitely many sides to this that have to be recognized and understood. There is no right or wrong answer.

On one hand you have science and the laws of nature. We are scientifically animals, and therefore should treat our fellow animals as we treat fellow humans. Humans have no right to just murder an animal because we can, or just want to. Animals are essentially just like us, in this case.

On the other hand, there is the religious, or more spritual reasoning. They believe in morals and rights. You do not kill, and those who do are a threat, or are considered a sinner, and should therefore perish. Killing animals is for food, but killing people is not tolerated.

Third, are the people who believe in humans as a superior race. They argue that humans have evolved and civilized brains that other animals do not have. Humans have a sense of being and a wider range of emotions than other animals. They understand and feel compassion and guilt. They are the smartest animals and the most advanced. We have power over other animals and use them, and we like to think we respect them.

For each of these examples, I have believed in what I said. This essay was only told from one point of view, when, in fact, there are many. No person should say that another is wrong, and no one should argue that they are right either.

Your essay was wonderful, thank you for writing,

DeepSixing

They don't think and have feelings or opinions, thoughts ideas, souls, loves, hates. Regardless of what people say, we aren't animals

It seems as though you are being bashed for this peice. However, i do have to say i agree with you. Is it wrong to kill while, we are animals as well? I mean you see lions killing other lions, sharks killing other sharks, so why can't we do the same? People think because we can "think" that we have the right not to kill...Well they are wrong, animals think, we all think, just in different way. Whatever is right and wrong is normally told to us, so we ourselves DO NOT SEE, that we are taught all these stupid things, while animals have to fend on their own, most of them learn on their own! without anyone to guide their back. Its like Darwin said, Survival of the fittest. SO we kill to get ahead, but when we kill we find ourselves behind, yet those who kill, we end up killing thinking it as a punishment. While most murderers don't really get killed, they await their day, but most die in a cell...Even so don't you think they have it better then some? Humans are on the street barely survivingly, while here we are giving a murderer board, food, job opitions...They have it better then some...we spend 42,0 dollars just for one inmate a year, so where is the justice in that? why is it so wrong to trail a murderer, and then kill him the day afterwards? shouldn't it be like that, instead to give him/her time to "atone" for it. YOu can't go back, once you have killed. so whats the point of not pulling a gun out and killing someone? Its morals...Principal. We are the only thing that stands in the way...and if killing is not human, then what is? because now and days no one really seems human.

-Saleinaenachiya.
(sorry for the long review, but this topic gets me going.)
_Bright_Blessings

You REALLY didn't think this out well, now did you?

“Why is murder considered to be such a terrible thing to do?”

If you’re seriously asking, you really are not capable of understanding. You’re a sociopath who needs to be contained or excised. If you’re just being facetious, you probably already understand.

“It's not like we all don't die someday.”

It’s not like that matters.

“But then again, the question of marality comes in. People analyze hings and they think "What one person has the right to decide when when another shall die?" Well, it's quite simple. Any of us.”

Sure, any of us has the right to determine that certain kinds of criminals should die.

“Has anyone ever noticed that to punish most murderers, we kill them?”

I’m not nearly confident that most murderers get killed.

“The saying that two wrongs doesn't make a right is completely ignored at that time because it suits people to kill someone else just because they killed another.”

No, it’s not. Killing a murderer isn’t a wrong.

“Most people can kill with little thought as to what they are doing.”

Uh, no.

“The fact that you are snuffing out somebodies life just doesn't connect anymore. You get as far as pulling the trigger and you just blank out. Murder is about as emotionless as hunting.”

Murder is not necessarily emotionless.

“Or is it because as humans we consider ourselves to be better and more intelligent than any other living being, that we think that gives us the automatic right to decide when one creature dies and another lives?”

Intelligence really has nothing to do with it. You really are probably not capable of understanding it.

“Fundamentally, we are no different than the bug under our shoe.”

“Fundamentally”, there are no differences between any two given things. It’s all matter. So what?

“But as humans, we are free to take lives as often as we like, so long as it is not another human.”

Not quite.

“Large cities are overrun by thousands, if not millions, of people. Again, we are as much animals as those deer. We have the same organs, the same population problem, the same basic conscience that allows us to know we are alive, who we are and what we're doing.”

Population isn’t a problem for humans. Large populations of wild animals, on the other hand, are sometimes problematic (for humans).

“Why is there not a human hunting season to keep the population down?”

Because 1) that would be murder and 2) the world is underpopulated (by humans) as it is.

“What makes us, we, who's closest relative is as primate that walks on four legs, so special? Is it language, because dolphins and birds communicate as well as we do, only in a different way. Maybe it's writing. But what about all the illiterate people out there? Civilization? No...wait...ants have colonies and bees have their hives, which are a really tiny form of civilization.”

It’s none of those things. Those are all effects with the same cause as morality. Arguably they are effects OF morality.

“Again, what makes us, as animals under the classifacation ** sapiens, so awesome that we can kill anything except each other and not call it murder?”

The fact that we’re them. Or at least some of us are anyway.