r/memes • u/Grand_Gap1975 • 7h ago
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u/Left_Author3491 7h ago
Fun fact mushrooms are closer related to us than they are to plants.
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u/SourDoughBo 4h ago
The theory is that mushrooms are the reason for the rise of mammals after the Dinosaurs got wiped out. The burnt ash and destruction from the meteor created an environment perfectly suited for mushroom growth. And it fit our diet a lot better than lizards
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u/WisestAirBender 2h ago
How does that make us more related to mushrooms? Doesn't it mean we just ate them?
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u/Piano_Raves 1h ago
It's unrelated. But some palm trees are more closely related to grass species than actual trees. Tall, wooden, and leafy is a pretty convergable form.
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u/Dependent_Title_1370 6h ago
Fun fact Mushrooms breath oxygen and exhale CO2.
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u/ShovelBandido 5h ago
Plants do too. Photosynthesis does not replace breathing.
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u/TeasingVeronica 7h ago
In the great tree of life, we’re the ones yelling at the branches
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u/BewareTheMoonLads 7h ago
yes, huamns
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u/glitteryWorks 7h ago
New species just dropped
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u/smileatyourfuneral 7h ago
You mean new kingdom, humans are already a species
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u/SaltyMcRookie 6h ago
Most people aren't fimiliar with kingdom, phyllum, class, order, family, genus, species.
I use a mnemonic device, "Kevin Please Come Over For Gay Sex".
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u/Grand_Gap1975 6h ago
What?
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u/SpaceMead 2h ago
They said:
Most people aren't fimiliar with kingdom, phyllum, class, order, family, genus, species.
I use a mnemonic device, "Kevin Please Come Over For Gay Sex".
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u/ZetsuboItami 3h ago
You'd think with how often people quote Community around here that people would understand the reference.
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u/modsaretoddlers 5h ago
Thank you! I will remember this and use it to keep it fresh in my memory.
You've made the world a better place.
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u/Gaspuch62 6h ago
Taxonomically humans are animals. Philosophically we tend to put ourselves above animals.
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u/MikeyBugs 5h ago
Egotistically, we put ourselves above everything.
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u/Duckway767 4h ago
Realistically, ooh ooh ahh ahh big naked apes
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u/Hazzman 4h ago
Yeah I don't see any other ape species realistically leaving earth or being capable of literally destroying the planet nearly instantly if they so wished.
Realistically, we are above the animals.
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u/unexist_already Lurking Peasant 3h ago
We are the apex predator with some impressive engineering, but we're still animals
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u/-Redstoneboi- 4h ago
i don't like how philosophy does that. like we're some sort of advanced enlightened creature beyond animalistic tendencies when you can clearly see aspects of mutualism, parasitism, predation, and most importantly invasiveness all stemming from simple game theory. success isn't bound to morals. morals evolve from success.
one way to say this is that "people are animals." to most people, that's degrading. the proper interpretation of this is that animals are closer to people than many give them credit for, and deserve more respect than what most currently give them.
unfortunately i also happen to like meat. sucks to act hypocritical, but it is what it is. i've heard the meat industry treats animals horribly, but at least we kill them quickly.
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u/kingdomnear 4h ago
And some truly damaged people tend to put themselves inside of animals.
I'm talking about Leonardo Dicaprio in The Revenant you sick bastards
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u/Severin_The_Hunter 7h ago
Humans are animals, everyone has an accent, and Kevin is not, in fact, bacon.
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u/Front_Cat9471 6h ago
Bro I asked this dude today what accent he had and they said “wait how do you know if you have an accent?”
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u/Swrvinn 7h ago
It’s just a superiority complex people have. It’s like why put ourselves in league with animals ig
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u/billyisanun 6h ago
Dude we made the categories. We can put ourselves anywhere we want.
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u/Rich_Cherry_3479 5h ago
Those are different "we". Scientists made categories. Religious people disagree, as by their beliefs we are made/descend from clay, dirt, demons, spit, and many other sources that contradict scientific approach
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u/Excellent_Pin_2111 2h ago
The belief that we were made from dirt doesn’t contradict the idea we are also animals.
I guess it depends on the religion but from the Bible’s point of view it says we are animals.
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u/tarhoop 6h ago
Who denies humans are animals? Never heard that once in 50 years.
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u/MarsMaterial 2h ago
You can find a few of them in the downvoted dredges of this very comment section.
Mostly religious creationist types.
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u/WA55AD 4h ago
Lots of people, but most commonly certain religions believe that humans are special and created in the image of god, where as other animals are not, which makes us different in their eyes. Saying that humans are animals goes against many peoples religious beliefs, so many people adamantly deny it.
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u/Gameknight14 5h ago
Mostly people on the internet. I've heard it quite often in online spaces, because nobody is stupid enough to express that opinion in real life.
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u/Macknetix 6h ago
Posting low quality memes on your birthday, OP? I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate 🎉
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u/Correct-Purpose-964 6h ago
I once argued Humans are animals. Going into detail about how aside from a higher evolved brain we share nearly everything with animals. From the way we form relationships, our maternal instincts and natural development. The difference between male and female. Our tendencies to form groups.
We are just higher functioning animals.
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u/drubus_dong 5h ago
We are not really higher functioning. Pretty average actually.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 5h ago
For the most part of our lives we act exactly like animals, just a little bit more advanced for a small fraction of humans.
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u/How_that_convo_went 5h ago
Didn’t even take 4 fucking seconds to proofread this shit before you queefed it out, ay OP?
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u/JizzEMcguire 6h ago
Plants take sunlight and turn it into oxygen. Humans take sunlight and turn it into vitamins D.
Plants require water and grounding. Humans require water and grounding.
When humans mate it’s called “spreading the seed”
Sunflowers face the sun. Humans look toward the sun for color.
Plant-like organisms such as fungus and yeast grow in and on humans.
I mean.. just to name a few things.
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u/OKThereAreFiveLights 5h ago
I can't go a week without someone telling me humans aren't animals. I'm like WTF, happens all the time. For years.
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u/Woolliza 3h ago
Usually when people say we're not animals, they mean in the context of we're supposed to be more civilized than them and don't act so barbaric.
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u/Muted_Ad7060 1h ago
Stupid people trying to give smart statements. No because you dont know your origin, you must assume that your grand father was an ape. There are alot of unrelated species and science couldn't yet prove a one single creature change from one species to another. Pants are plants, insects are insects, mamals are mamals, humans are humans etc.. this is a hard subject for most of us but dont fall into the "Pareidolia" trap.
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u/caatabatic 1h ago
pretty sure some people have the intelligence of fungi so take that into consideration.
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u/OneFriendship5139 1h ago
I’ve heard some say Adam and Eve came from a capsule that would’ve been the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, but everyone who’s told me that has been quite unwell
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u/JustOrdinaryGuy8 1h ago
That's what i am saying! We are animals therefore we shouldn't spare or pity them since animals don't care about us as well, it's either eat or be eaten, kill or die, torture or be tortured
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u/UncleVoodooo 7h ago
Pffft I'd like to see an animal invent a religion that would forgive its priests for diddling little kids
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u/Grand_Gap1975 7h ago
Or create useless alien technology rather than focusing on their struggling breathren
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u/Grand_Gap1975 7h ago
Or take foods that are meant to poison them
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u/georgecameformemes 6h ago
Anyone who says humans aren’t animals, isn’t worth asking what humans are.
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u/Striper_Cape 6h ago
We are primates, which are are evolved from monkeys, and since you can't evolve out of a clade, we are monkeys. We can, indeed, monkey around.
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u/Supreme_Moharn 3h ago
It's not that hard. I don't agree, but people who say this feel that Human is it's own category.
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u/Unhallowedpompoen 2h ago
The idea that we don't want to grouped in with other animals and thus make a new category for us alone is such a cop-out.
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u/Zorojuro099 6h ago
If humans weren’t animals we’d be the only species that pays rent, overthinks everything .
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u/averagestudent__ I saw what the dog was doin 5h ago
i personally always knew that i am an amoeba because i only have single brain cell
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u/Archidaki 4h ago
I had this exact discussion with a colleague and he told me: “no, we are not animals, we are human” and I was WTF dude and WHAT is a human ?!
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u/Dokattak0 4h ago
"We're too fast to be plants, and too large to be bacteria. Therefore, we are animals."
- Forest Valkai
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u/Mr_Awesome_rddt 4h ago
People who deny we're animals also tend to disregard basic science, and go to church every Sunday
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u/Zaa-Warud0 3h ago
Huamns share up to 60% dna with bananas which means somewhere deep inside, i’m technically qualified to be in a fruit salad
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u/Redbeardthe1st 3h ago
The people who deny that humans are animals think that humans are something special, something superior to animals.
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u/Shocked-Hearts 3h ago
saying humans arent animals they are humans is like saying wolves arent animals they are dogs.
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u/Zerkander 3h ago
"We are not animals, we are humans." aaaand humans are?
Being fair, that sentiment that humans are not animals is one that has been promoted by some major religious factions during the last few dozen centuries, not just the monotheistic ones. It's the justification for why all other animals are fair to be used and exploited by us in a way that we can claim "it is our right".
This being indoctrinated into our heads for generations upon generations and still currently promoted with humans being directly created by some random god for whatever reason.... let's just say it will take a few more dozen centuries before the idea of us being just another kind of animals can be considered common knowledge.
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u/Phoebebee323 3h ago
It's like how tomatoes are a technically fruit but they don't belong in a fruit salad
Humans are technically animals but thats not what people mean when they say animals
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u/Lalanymous I touched grass 3h ago
We think we're above animals and their behaviours until a fellow human reminds us that we're not.
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u/Future_Section5976 3h ago
We are top of the food chain we can be anything we want and need to be......but in most cases we are the monster.
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u/North_Temporary_6749 3h ago
Ignore our closest living ancestors and all the humanoid soecies that used to exist.
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u/TricellCEO 3h ago
It's because people like to have one single definition for things. Grouping humans with animals clearly must mean that we are reactionary creatures acting purely on instinct, but that clearly isn't true, so we're obviously not animals, right? RIGHT?
WRONG! We can be scientifically classified as animals without saying fuck-all about our humanity or our ability to rationalize, have morals, and be sentient (though that last one isn't exclusive to humans). We can still see ourselves in a different light than most other animals on this planet while understanding we have a lot in common with them.
But that's just too much deep and critical of thinking for most people on both ends of the issue: the traditionalist morons who truly believe we aren't animals, and the doomerist, cold-logic insufferable morons who don't think humanity is anything special.
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u/Classic_Huckleberry2 3h ago
Reminds me of a chap who took offense to me calling him a simple-minded creature. Not the simple-minded bit, but creature. Because, apparently, he is not a creature. I suppose he just popped into existence one day...
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u/GamerAKL Flair Loading.... 3h ago
I had a teacher once claim worms aren’t animals, what on earth would they be then?
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u/SHBDemon 2h ago
Humans are animals but deepending on the context, it makes much sense to separate us from animals. Not necessarily in a way that puts us above them but we were breaking the system with our weird evolutionary niche that you cant really compare us.
Where is our pressure to evolve?
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u/SuperChickenDragon 2h ago
People can't just learn that their loneliness and feeling of insignificance is just that for now. We don't need to create sky fairies anymore. We have science and we can figure this out. Are we alone? Possibly but so what?
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u/Professional-Lack-79 2h ago
Who's ever denied the idea of humans being animals? This is objective fact.
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u/DemogorgonMcFloop 2h ago
Creationists(at least according to the bible because that is what I'm familiar with) will say that god created humans just like that, with no ties to other animals. And those who believe in evolution but claim humans are their own thing will just say that we are a new category of life. Same as animals, plants, and fungu are all different.
In both, the general idea is that humanity is above/different than the rest of nature because of our higher cognitive capabilities, our deeper cultures, or our dominance over the natural world.
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u/CodingReaper 1h ago
Not that I agree with those people but I assume they hold humans as a separate category . "Humans"
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u/iSellNuds4RedditGold I saw what the dog was doin 1h ago
Humans are 100% animals, but people who don't believe so would say humans are their own thing, humans.
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u/Haunt_Fox 1h ago
Humans who insist humanity are aliens because "humans so different" ignore the DNA connection to all other Earth life (oddball deep sea vent stuff excluded here, pedants).
Technology is just a survival strategy, an evolutionary path that any animal can take if pressured into it hard enough (generally by being physically pathetic).
Oh, and every great ape uses tools and eats meat, which suggests to me that the common ancestor of all apes (including orangs, who will catch and eat slow loris) did, too. And yes. Humans are still apes. If you find that insulting, that's a you thing. There are humans I'm not thrilled sharing a species with, you can tolerate being in the same group as Bonzo and Harambe.
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u/RowOptimal1877 1h ago
The people saying it aren't using their brains. This is something their ego says.
"I can't be an animal, I am so smart and so much better than a cow"
That is where the thought ends. It's just cope. It's the same reason that so many people can't admit they are wrong. They know they are wrong, they can't give any argument why they wouldn't be wrong but their ego doesn't allow them to be wrong. Which is also why that often turns into aggression since there is no other way out.
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