Man's Best Friend - Human or Animal?

I have been recently thinking about the significance of animals in our lives and the relationship of animals within their own species and how one species relates to another. Four notions occurred to me: often one specie of animals view another specie of animals as food; another specie of animals may not view another specie of animals as food at all; some animals are trainable by humans and can become loyal as well as a great source of fun and security; and still another specie of animal are hardly trainable at all and can be a great source of danger.

Although many animals have the capacity to be trained by humans to a certain extent, they all function on the basis of instinct and can not make any moral choices. Human beings, however, have the capacity to make moral choices and can choose all their behaviors and therefore can provide the type of relationship to another human being that no animal can provide. Moreover, depending upon our needs the quality of relationships we have with other human beings can have a direct effect on our mental health.

Personally, I don't eat animals nor do I keep any type of animals as pets, although I accept the fact that certain animals can be great companions. I just prefer human companionship and believe that another human is man's best friend.

More on this later.