What makes us different from animals is not our so-called intelligence.
It is our ability to choose, to reason, to decide. Our ability to know the difference between right and wrong.
When you corner an animal, a snake for example, it will strike because it is its nature to do so. Animals strike even when you don't provoke them because it is their instinct to bite or maim. When a person is provoke, you can't expect him to bite or maul the person provoking him. Maybe the person would punch, kick or scratch or maybe he would prefer to walk away and do nothing. Though fighting back is an instinct, it is still a matter of choice.
But what about those people who kills without provocation? What about those who never feel remorse when they kill? Are they human or are they animals?
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