Recently, some crazy person was on TV expounding on the benefits of artificial milk products, justifying her opinion by declaring that “humans are the only mammals that (sic) drink milk into adulthood.” If you want to be crazy, be crazy. It’s one of the things humans do into adulthood. And then I started thinking of all the things humans do that other mammals don’t. I really hope the crazy lady is reading because these are all things she should not be doing and helping others is another thing humans do.

Humans are the only mammals who:

Read for pleasure,

Read for anything,

Know that war and battles are so wrong that one of us donated a lot of money to establish a prize to celebrate peace,

Laugh

Clean and cook food to feed to our families so we aren’t limited to dinners of furry rabbit tartar with a tall glass of rice milk,

Invent stuff,

Can write all of Shakespeare’s plays without the help of 1,000 close friends and random blind luck (in fact, one guy did just that),

Know that music soothes the savage breast,

Heal illnesses,

Discover vaccines,

Create and maintain safe habitats for other mammals,

Appreciate ballet, tap, jazz, break, and dirty dancing,

I don’t begrudge the crazy lady for voicing her views.  If it weren’t for us humans she’d not have the right to speak her opinion freely.  I am upset that she is inferring that her view must be the correct one based on faulty logic. It might be a fact but is has nothing to do with the argument. It is like saying that indoor plumbing works because humans are the only mammals who make doctor appointments for themselves.

There are no count of the things that make humans different from other mammals.   For that we should be infinitely grateful.

That’s what I think. How ’bout you.