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Date The Humanity of Maltreating Animals Matthew Scully states in his concluding remarks in his article Crime Against Nature ' that the real issue of the sufferings of animals in the hands of man comes down to the question of whether I am a man or just a consumer ( Scully , 2003 ,

.404 Scully argues that man 's maltreatment of the animals cast a serious question on his humanity but I seriously believe that on the contrary such action does not make him less of

a man but in fact it reinforces his humanity for it shows the three distinct characteristic abilities of man : the ability to reason , make a choice and exercise conscience There is no doubt that man 's greatest advantage against the animals is his ability to reason and he uses this ability to subjugate the lowly animals . By his analysis and the weighing down of pros and cons he had come to the conclusion that an animal is both a competitor for survival and for his consumption . On the other hand , the animals relate to his environment and to threats of danger through his built-in instinct which Carl Jung in the Book Jung 's Map of the Soul describes as determinative ' so that they are more or less predictable (Becker 1971 ,

.44 . Reason , therefore , is superior to instinct , which is why in spite of his cunning ways the animals lay helpless before the intentional exploits of...