I've been watching this thread develop all day, and it's getting really frustrating to watch.
First of all i'd like to return to the point made earlier that humans are animals, and that's been bugging me all day too.
Something about human nature deters me, while animals have a more welcoming aura. That's the way it has always been for me. I'm merely cursed being one. If I were born and animal I wouldn't mind if my human intelligence was gone. The only fear I would have would be dangers created by the human kind. People hunt foxes (and other animals) for their own personal entertainment! 
Sorry if I'm bringing a negative mood to the forum 
Out of interest, what do you think would be better about animal nature ?
If anything it's worse being an animal and having to deal with other animals as they'll all either want to kill you, or fear being killed by you. Also animals pay no attention to animal rights, so thats a bucket load of protection out of the window right from the off,
huh... I know, I guess I'm not explaining it right. I don't care if I live in day-to-day fear of predators. I don't care if I'm starved. I know that I wouldn't be the top of the food chain. I'm not just some naive kid who thinks that being an animal is all an easy life prancing through the forest with a full stomach and not a care in the world.
If the whole "living in constant fear" and being mostly starved thing isn't an issue then i'm sure the military could find a role for you somewhere.
Further on you go on to say that you'd prefer to be an anthro creature of some sorts, and this is where things start to get really peachy. On the one hand you're the only anthro creature on the planet crossed with something else to result in a living "furry" in which case, great, but i'm guessing the chances are pretty high that if you're ever seen and captured, you'll end up in some form of research centre with test done on you for the rest of your life. On the other hand, if the whole world went furry, then there would be a tsunami of hate spread everywhere. At the moment people are racist enough just by going on the basis of where someone is from, or the colour of someone's skin. Now imagine the degrees of hate that would spread if it weren't only based on where people were from, but if that cascaded down into the species people were, the breeds within that, and i'm guessing colour would still play a role in that too. The whole world going furry doesn't even begin to cover the issue of how the population is going to feed itself as unless you have some arbitary judge of sentience then you would end up with all the chicken anthros and cow anthros etc, being born into a life of slavery. Unless of course arbitary selection for sentience somehow means that you'll get your intelligent cow anthros, and "normal" cows too as we're used to today.
I also fail to see how your being an anthro animal is going to resolve anything. Yes you'll be all fuzzy and furry, but once the novelty of that wears off, i'm pretty sure that you'll end up getting annoyed and frustrated with the quibbles of day to day life as it is now. As i mentioned before, if everyone turns furry then they'll find more reasons to hate one another, so you solve the problem of hating life as a human, but spawn a load of other problems with that. If you end up turning wholly animal on your own, then you've got a life of constant fear ahead of you, which like i said before, can be easily replicated as a human by joining the military or living in a war-torn location. Tie that in to predation and no medical service to cater for you, dying young is pretty much a given, and if you end up just body-swapping to an animal tomorrow, retaining your human mind and memories, then chances are you'd end up dead faster still.
I don't wish to put a downer on your topic or your ideals, but it's been frustrating me all day, especially the notion that just gluing fur to yourself, chopping off your thumbs and abandoning the fruits of human evolution, is going to solve everything.
Topic: I hate being human! (Read 1698 times)