[Dimensio]

Please spare me the humans are animals lecture, it's ridiculous.

Yeah. Just because we share the same physiological traits and there is no chemical difference in human and animal physical makeup -- just different DNA -- it is silly to say that humans are animals. I mean, it must be false, because if it were true, we would feel less "special" and since things that we don't like can't be true, it's false!

[RightWhale]

we share the same physiological traits and there is no chemical difference in human and animal physical makeup -- just different DNA

Bruce Lipton--cells are very similar whether animal or human. Cells function well under denucleation--without DNA--for a considerable time. Our entire bodies are a community of individual cells--the next level of fractal organization of the same thing. 50 trillion cells in a community act as a single cell, no more, no less.