I tend to think I am an animal with a language faculty and that there is common some experience I share with animals and also that animals are capable of many of the kinds of practical cognition.

I deny the idea that animals have a moral inferiority to humans, in the sense that they make worse decisions as to practical ethics.

For instance, a horse will express affection if you feed it but if you feed a child it might complain it isn't right and then wonder why his mom would rather feed the horses.

I think on any continent you will have a much easier time getting killed by annoying a cop than by annoying an animal.