[Maru]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It's not really about being "more important" it's self preservation of our own species which it seems most animals have, I would imagine most animals think they're the most important ones, surely that's an inbuilt kind of instinct and the reason for reproduction?

Yeah, human beings have evolved to craft elaborate "story lines" for our motivations and interactions with the world around us. It's how we relate and communicate emotionally with the world around... though some things can be be distilled down to instinct, self-preservation, even though we "prettify" our motivations sometimes... the epic story of a passionate love at first sight ending in a night in the city... actually just the emotionally lubricated version of getting their rocks off.

Animal instinct doesn't get watered down to the PG-13 version as far as we are aware.