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This is offensive. By saying this, you are implying that I am an unintelligent moron, and you appear to think I have never been to school or, as you put it, "cracked open a Biology textbook". If humans qualify as animals, then the killing of animals would be considered murder. I hope you do not think that the life of, say, a sheep is worth as much as that of a human. Maybe humans ARE animals, but if we are, then we are definitely a higher form of animal. There is a reason lions don't rule the earth. Please do not continue to insult my intellect.It wasn't much of an insult, but you can act all hurt if you want. I was merely pointing out what seemed like a very big gap in your knowledge. Humans have always been a part of Kingdom Animalia, and while we have a higher intellect than other animal species, that does not change that classification.
Your logic is flawed on the second part. Killing animals is not murder, because murder is neither defined as merely "killing" nor is murder even defined as "unlawfully killing a living creature", it is (simplified) "unlawfully killing, with malice aforethought, another HUMAN".
At no point does saying humans are animals imply that a non-human animal has the same rights as a human.
Further, we were never talking about the life of human, we were speaking of the CORPSE of a human, and how a primitive tribesman whose beliefs include cannibalism might view the process of using every part of an already dead human.
Context is key.
I did ask you to stop.