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You animal! He's such a pig. Ugh, she's a dog. These are all true...you are an animal.
Webster's dictionary defines an animal as: one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings.
That is such bull.
It is not humans AND animals, humans ARE animals. Just because we have consciousness or intelligence doesn't make us better than all the other animals on the planet, just different. We, humans, are classified in the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata and so on and so forth... our closest living relatives are the great apes and we are primates.
Free will, consciousness, morals, ethics - whatever we think separates us from them is only what we decided as important to make us special. But these traits don't make us any less of a vertebrate.
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