MAN

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We are outstanding we tend to think, crown to creation, man. Are we, really?
Yes, man has got the gift of knowing, remembers and is able to look and plan ahead. Our brains empower us to calculate and construct, to reason and to phantasize. This might set us somehow apart from animals, plants and other living things, Life differntiates by millimetres on a scale, be it size, speed, sense or intelligence amongst other traits that define life and its various forms. Thus it is with everything. We are not the only ones to construct or to use tools. Remembering is not our's alone. Perhaps we are at the extreme end at some scales, some, perhaps not the right ones. We hate, lie, betray, rape, imprison, hurt, maim, kill, you name it.
Man is not better, wiser or else, nor able to transcend his biological heritage. Man is outstanding, but only with regard to negative extremes.