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That's true, I was only thinking of purely psychological emotions but brain chemistry can seriously effect the way you feel and think, that is the point of recreational drugs. Sometimes the chemistry of the brain can simply change by itself, just as someone can become hypoglycemic or get high blood pressure without any outside influence. And there is no amount of cheering up that can help a brain chemistry thing.

You are all one person as far as the rest of are concerned.
A terribly schizophrenic person.

If you think you have more in common with a white, blond, blue eyed Bashkir raised in Kazan than with a black person raised in New York, then you are a fool. The color of the skin is not as defining as the environment someone is raised in. People raised in America are Americans.

Or unless it's funny.
Don't assume you know what's funny.
Is this a paradox? Yes, it is.

I'll be over here living with a German Shepard that's trained to rip the head off anyone who breaks into my house.

The cute and fluffy laws can be bad, true, but if those Eskimos had driven the seals to extinction, which was likely, they would have been far worse off. And no Eskimos starved because they couldn't club baby seals anymore, seriously, there's far more meat on a walrus than a baby seal. Seal pelts were sold for money not food.
Animals are not people, but people ARE animals, and there is NO CHANGING THAT. The only thing that separates us is brain power. Animals have nowhere near the rights of children, where the hell did you hear that? And if our current prison system rehabilitates anyone, it's the exception not the rule. You really think that individual animals who hunt humans for sport and laugh at the people they hurt are worth more to us as a society than animals who have been bred for thousands of years to be beneficial to mankind? But hey, if you want to live next to a 'rehabilitated' violent serial rapist and wife beater who got paroled due to prison overcrowding, you do that.