Humans are the most dangerous animals in the world....

...well, thats what I think anyway. What about you guys?

 

humans are like animals. and we do have the power to kill and do stuff other animals can do.

 

Humans are animals... But yes the humans are the most dangerouse ones

 

Because, Being the most intelligent, we have the power to make an entire speices extint, example, there used to be so much blue whales swimming about until we found other uses for them

 

Who said we are the most intellegente. What makes us special is that we found a way a exploit other animals early on. But anyways, yea humans are dangerous, we are a society that is forever removed from the group as a whole. Our solidarity makes us dangerous. Human will envitably destroy themselves, and no one will give a crap because no one cares to help anyone but themselves.

 

Humans are the most dangerous I would agree yes. That is because of our sentience. We no longer rely solely on base instinct. We think logically. It is how we have survived so long. We can adapt massively to change. We can exploit anything and everything around us to suit our needs. Humans are also dangerous from the fact that we are as much a danger to ourselves as we are to everything else. We are more likely to kill each other off than anything else really =/. Also, as Spitfire said, we have managed to remove ourselves from the natural processes and cycles of the Earth. We enter into almost every ecosystem on the planet and usually rip it to shreds. We, as a species, do not work in symbiosis very well =/.

 

The 3-toed Sloth has enough muscular strength to stab a hole the size of an apple in your chest. The Blue Ringed Octopus can induce paralysis and death a mere 3 minutes after exposure to its venom. There are at least 100 times the number of insects on our planet than humans-- if they were all carnivorous they'd be the dominating species. We are certainly innovative, and it's that accumulated ingenuity, along with our ability for higher reasoning, that has made us the dominant species on the planet. But if you take away all of that we're pretty low on the other end of the food chain. In a 4 way match between a tiger, polar bear, cobra, and human, ingenuity and higher reasoning alone just wouldn't be able to do the trick.

 

Ofcourse if you take that away we wouldnt be the dominant species we'd just be another animal so to speak.... and a fight with a tiger, polar bear,cobra and a human, igenuity would make a massive diference to what the outcome of the fight might be, thats how weve been able to become the dominant species, with igenuity the human would most likely assess his situation and find a solution to it

 

i agree that humans are the most dangerous, but they can also be the most selfless, we are trying to save animals who are nearing extinction, we have pets who we love, and we are creating a better society

 

Agreed, yet..... we are saving animals. But would those animals be extinct if not for us? Bunter brought up a good point. Because of our ability to adapt, and ability to plan, to exploit, we have become the dominant species. Where would this planet be without us? Definately not about to be fried because of a depleting Ozone layer.

 

Assessing a situation doesn't imply finding a resolution for it. The human would win "conceptually" (Had he/she had the proper resources, equipment, a gun, or what have you).

 

Humans are the most dangerous,as we kill for sport. The animals kill to survive mostly.We kill them as well as each other very irresponsibly.

 

Now that you think of it, Humans are basically nothing without hi-tec gadgets or weapons. Heck, thousands of years ago we are like the lowest of the low with really nothing to defend us at all. It wasn't until we discovered weapons such as spears and arrows etc when we climbed to the top of the food chain.

Yes, we do kill animals for sport, for fun, for no reason. But isn't that what we are? I mean, a lioness doesn't care what the zebra thinks when it's trying to kill it. They just want to for food. Most people don't care if you step on an ant. Even the ant hill that the ant is from might not care since it got zillions of ants.

Sure there are those people who protect animals because they are going extinct. But there will always be those people who will want to kill them because that animal is rare. Even if you are the nicest person in the world and you haven't done a single bad thing ever, you will always get that moment where you will say, "Why do I care? As long as I'm fine, I don't need to worry." It's not like everytime you see a poor dude you give him ten bucks to get a good meal.

If you were in a buring house and you had to save either the monkey or the human (ONLY ONE) so, you saved the human. But does that mean the monkey is less worthy to live than an human? Some would think so, but what about the monkey? What does it think about it's rights?

In the end, wheter we like it or not, we are probably going to be the death of the planet.

Now let's sit back and relax till the Ozone layer disappears or be flooded to death or even bomb ourselves to death.

 

I couldn't have stated things more beutifully, KOK.

 

The whole point is humans developed the sentience to do all of those things. No other animal has become capable of that yet (although many would say that because humans developed it we have suppressed the advancement of other species). Really if you put a human up against a lion in a straight fight in a bare room with nothing but bare fists/paws the lion would win. The lion would obviously win. But in other situations the human would be able to use what is around them. THAT IMO is where the dangerousness comes in.

But, what is supposed to keep that in check is the morals in humanity. Unfortunately they are lacking in many people. With sentience comes the burden of higher emotions and logical and cognitive thought. We CARE about other people and animals. We feel bad for others, we aren't completely selfish (well mostly, I can think of a few people -___-), we currently have the power to help the world and we are. In that way, we are both the most dangerous and the most benign. We have checks that stop us from going crazy. We don't just work off of base instinct, we are 'better' than that (for lack of a better word).

 

Well, we aren't extremely selfish that we don't help anyone else and yes, animals aren't exactly as intelligent as we are and they don't have the reasoning to question science or physics or whatever. But that's evolution.

Evolution made us have that extra leap in thinking where we question and try to find out the answer. Humans really don't have much in defense, even millions of year ago we had nothing. We have nails, we have easily ripped skin and we don't really have extremely keen senses. But we got the next best thing. We learned, questioned, adapted. We wanted to work out the mysteries of life. Then we learned to bend our enviroment to our command.

Thus, we became more dangerous as now we have to power to change entire ecosystems.

 

But without our technology and advances do we have anything left? I think the question needs to be more specific. Does it mean human as in the organism, the species, or the 'civilisation'.

 

If we went by physical characteristics alone, no, the human species is not the deadliest and in fact, we'd suffer a lot and be not on top of the food chain etc. Many carnivores are stronger than humans, let alone the fact that some of the herbivores could kick our sorry bums. It's the reason we are omnivores and not just predators more than likely. =:)

However, because we are sentient beings, as others have said, it puts us in a higher category. What we lack in finesse and power, we make up for with the development of tools, working together, cognitively thinking of ways to provide shelter and comforts etc. We can destroy whole environments or meld with them. The sentient part is what truly makes humans a unique animal with an adaptability potential to go with nature, rise above it in some cases, and exploit it in others. I would consider with that being said, that we are indeed the potentially most dangerous of the animals. After all, we can even study them to find ways to avoid being victims to them and have weapons enough to put animals down. We've also been involved in some species' extinctions. The wholly mammoth is pretty well understood to have gone extinct by humans driving them over cliffs and then they'd go down and get the meat etc they wanted. We think of ways to take down things 'greater' than we are in physical nature. If other animals had our intellect, we would not be where we are set in the scheme of things, nor would we have all we do about us now.

 

Why does this seem like everything I have been saying for all the months in the intelligent diiscussion area on KH-vids in one thread? And this time people are seeing things very differently? XD

Anyway, yes, completly and utterly Humans are the most dangerous creatures to ever be known in existence. And simply we are dangerous because of our intelligence, it is superior to other animals, but also the brain has made us one of the most destructive creatures ever, we have built machines that kill nature, weapons to kill animals, toxins to kill other humans, I eamn we are the only creatures that have over 10,000 ways to kill someone or something, dangerous is defiantly what I would call humans.

Intelligence of human level is the worse thing an animal can ever have, for the fact it breeds thoughts of how to get what you want, and not even things needed to survive, people now-a-days would kill someone for a phone or music player. That is destructive. Today we have sports and stunts like bike rides throug ring of fire or bungie jumping where you risk your life for nothing but the thrill of it, that is destructive. Where testing out make-up products on animals just to let vain people look more 'beautiful'. That is destructive. Where profit of money and wealth is more important than saving someones life. That is destructive.

In all humans are dangerous to themselves and anything around them, its fact. If you read it all, thank you!

 

yeah we are be cause how smart we are and almost i know we will be the cause the world blows up