Animals vs. People

Came across this article on yahoo today:

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/theprinciples/5381/pets-and-compassion

While he makes some interesting points, I feel he misses the main point. We love animals because of the fact they never judge us. No matter how vulnerable we are in front of them they don't think any less of us. And for this unconditional love they give us we are willing to do more for them. If we started treating people like we treat are pets, and making allowances for them because of their faults then those people would walk all over us, humans are different from animals...it's the nature of the beast so to speak.

While I am all for helping others and being myself, humans just don't always make that possible the way animals do. Not to mention a key point, humans (at least the majority of them as adults) are capable of caring for themselves, our pets don't have options and are forced to live with the choices we make for them.

Anyway...it was a good article, got me thinking. Now it's off to apply that thinking to come good Chemistry homework.