Before and after reading the selected parts of The Animal Ethics Reader I still feel strongly that there is still no difference between human animals and non-human animals. To classify them into these two different categories is slightly absurd. All animals have a type of code and ethic they share amongst themselves, no matter how different each and every organism is. They all have something unique in their own psychological behavior towards each other and towards the outside of their species. I find it wrong from a scientific stand point for us to give animals feelings and emotions that we as humans have created and deemed them right or wrong. To designate something as human or non-human is looking down on creatures because they don't have the same constructs that we do. Its like saying we are non-ant like creatures because we don't blindly obey a supreme overlord making us inefficient selfish beings, incapable of sacrificing a few weaklings to better the colony. It just becomes an improper classification design to group animals together with similar traits as humans, instead of grouping animals based on their DNA structure or a more fundamentally supportive class system.
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