Why do many people behavor as animals?
92543
It is not that violence or misbehavior are the upswing, it is merely we are more aware, what with faster communications, that it happens than anytime in the past. You also have to realize bad news sells better than good news which means the good news rarely hits the front page.\n\nAs for your added info, yes a lot have died in wars, but how many people have died of influenza in the same time frame?
715256
Because they are seen as human beings?
401747
I think it's because people are basically egocentric.  Also self-preservation is rather high on the list of the instincts.
949618
Because to accept that humans are no more than another species of animals on this planet would, in their minds, diminish our importance...\n\nThey are vain and arrogant.  They don't want to accept that we are nothing more than mammals of the great ape variety.\n\nFurthermore, they don't want to accept that this lifetime is all there is to our existence.  They are afraid, so they hide under the comfortable myths of religion.
973114
its precicely because america is more diverse.  it seems counterintuitive, but there are so many people who are just waiting to hate someone, and there are plenty of differences to choose from\n\nalso, back when humans first started conquering everything in sight, there were some people who objected to taking land and rights away from people.  some brilliant soul got the idea to tell everyone that \na) the people they were conquering were inferior, so they didnt deserve the land\nb) the people they were conquering were inferior, so they were beneath worrying about and should be disdained.\nc) the people they were conquering were inferior, so it was the job of the conquerors to forcibly enlighten them, or\nd) the people they were conquering were inferior, and they would welcome their enlightenors with welcome arms.\n\nthese excuses just got ingrained, and then there was the fear of rebellion and fear of invasion that just turned into hate.\n\nanother thing people like to forget is humans are pack animals.  we are decended from a ancestral species that spawned humans and many of todays primates, and that means that we have a lot of the same instincts.  humans arent the only species that takes in other species as its own, even mother dogs and cats and pigs do that. humans arent the only primates that use tools, we just had a few advantages that gave us a head start.  humans arent even the only species who use sexual favors to gain leverage in the "herd"  theres at least one species of primates that do that.\n\nthis pack mentality leads to a lot of things, basically everything.   jealousy killings, especially over sexual partners, career ladder, things like that. we fight our way to the top, we assert our superiority of those we percieve lower than us.  this is where the race thing comes in.  if you observe wolf tribes, pure white and pure black wolves are often either cast out or remain in the low ranks of the pack. its the same basic concept as incest, in the beginning it was to protect the gene pool, now its just an accepted custom, exect with the wolves, its the opposite.  pack mentality leads humans to try to do the same thing, to keep the "inferior" or "different" people seperate.\n\nthe pack thing also explains a lot of bullying, and why people get such sick satisfaction from getting rid of other people in order to rise to the top.\n\nwell, that got a little long.  enjoy.
51820
The idea of pleasure in non-human form is hard to grasp and the answer impossible to know.  However, it seems likely that every species is driven to procreate not out of an abstract idea that it is good for the species, but because the act feels good.
989991
Most animals do not care about humans too much. Cats and dogs are different. They have been domesticated for so long and were mostly born and raised in a human environment that they have come to understand and be dependent on that environment.\n\nMost other animals find the environments we have created do not suit them. Exceptions are many, of course - everything from the flea, bedbug and cockroach to mice, rats, many birds and some larger animals like foxes and racoons.\n\nWild life in the city is much more than you would think at first glance. Use your eyes and take notice of the plants growing in the cracks in brickwork and on waste ground. Don't think of them as weeds, think of them as life finding a foothold. Look around for insects and bugs and anything small - lizards, for example. Don't  think of them as vermin. They are animals which have adapted themselves to the environment we have created. Some are there because it's not so different from a natural environment for them, some are there because humans generate a lot of waste which is easy pickings and some are there because we ourselves are their source of food!\n\nThe other animals you mention (cattle and horses) are herd animals and need very large areas of grass to survive, wolves live and hunt in packs and need forest and woodland. Vultures find us just too tidy with our large dead bodies which is what they feed on.
930775
Humans are omnivores. Their, vegans, claim is moral or a health consideration. They have little empirical support, though. So, eat meat in moderation, if you want.
493579
it is stupid and people who do that are totally stupid mother fukers because animals were created for us to use in different purposes and no need for this respect that some people give to animals..or may be because they know they are fuking animals that's why they treat whom look like them good!!!!!!!! ha ha
59209
People like to be surrounded by the familiar.  When they encounter someone who doesn't act/look/believe what they are used to, they often fear it.  Most people get over this, realizing that different points of view is what make the world great, but some others just don't want to accept that there's a larger world beyond their own.
1123043
Yes...however, the human race is one of the few species on the planet that kills one another for conflict not just for survival. In most cases when animals confront eachother it is very rare that one of the animals is killed, let alone seriously injured.
540970
The same reason people like to watch boxing or other violent sports. The same reason kids like to play the most violent video games. Humans seem to have violent natures. There are only a handful of other animals that kill or attack for sport.
229515
If people admit that animals are worth being in relationships with, it calls up all the other problems. People have trouble morally with all that they do to animals and they don't want to be reminded of it.
280820
It is an animal instinct. All animals including humans react subconsciously to stay alive. We all have reflexes or taxis to survive.
775290
some can like mice and rats because they are very adoptive but lots of animals cant because they don't know what to hunt how to hunt in that environment and they have to compete with the unknown because that niche is already taken in that ecosystem
846712
I think its sad.\n\nEvery animal expresses love and understands fear.\n\nHumans are out of control on this earth. \n\nWe are more like a parasite than an intelligent being.\n\nIntelligent beings don't abuse and overwork their resources until there is nothing left.\n\nLike the ant and the grasshopper... we are ravenous like the grasshopper when we should be conserve and ration like the ant... with our air, with our metals, with our food resources, with the animals in the world....\n\nBut your right, no living creature should live in a cage until it's body grows to become a part of that cage, be forced fed, tortured and forced to watch its fellow specie die before it is brutally murdered.\n\nThey know pain and murder. Kill a cow in front of another cow and see if it doesn't understand.
537451
Because animals don't have to accomplish as many tasks, so they can specialize on a few specific tasks and learn to perfect them. Humans take on a greater number of tasks, most of which are highly complex, so they can't specialize as easily.