Humans are NOT superior to the other species.

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85. I certainly won't argue that that we better or worse or equal to animals

I certainly won't argue that that we better or worse or equal to animals (as every word in that sentence requires a specific and valid definition to allow everyone to be on same page. e.g., even the word "better" is subjective and biased), and far too many want to pretend to be more clever than we really are in these cases rather than simply discuss the issue.

I do however believe that as the creatures with the greatest intelligence, greatest creativity, and greatest capacity to exert our dominance and will over all other animals, we also have the greatest responsibility to (at the very least) to maintain an appropriate amount of stewardship over those animals. And in that, we both dramatically succeed in many cases, and dramatically fail in others.

I am generally optimistic-- as humans have socially and culturally evolved, we've picked up a few rather good concepts along the way (though it's taken a while). The concept of 'responsible stewardship' over the planet being among the most recent, and among the most needed in the post-industrial age.

Hopefully, we'll keep maturing emotionally and culturally without too many set-backs along the way.