Even as I use the word ‘Man’ as an irony, what I really mean is the whole humanity not excluding anyone or anybody for they belong to some religion, caste, gender, age, color or ability.
I once fell in argument with one of my friends after I saw some rather depressing news about killings, a rather massacre which I shouldn’t name here. The prolonged discussion came to its halt with him saying after all they are animals, we ourselves are animals, all of us. The words immediately took me to my childhood, schooldays where I could remember how humans can be animals. I recall reading and memorizing it for exams ‘Man is a social animal’ didn’t ever really think Why is man called as a social animal?
Aristotle once said “He who lives without society is either a Beast or God”. Thus, man is by nature a social animal. He is born in society lives in society and dies in society. The real question here is, then how come in this ‘real’ society some people turnout to be beasts or ‘Gods’. Mercenaries kill villages for religion, houses burn in riots where people holding swords and stone do it shouting the name of Allah and Ram and what not! The so called society breaks into parts uncountable, people forget there vows for their country, their men and actually start defining who there ‘people’ are.
Killing, it becomes so easy that humans sometimes don’t even think before hunting their own race down. Social Animals rarely kill each other, and even if they do out of all animals are they called civilized? We call ourselves civilized with civic sense, and senses go numb because we stick with some thoughts some nonsense we make out sense in…
To be continued…
A Thought Blog - By Prateek Devta 
I feel it’s all depend on the surroundings/environment, sometimes we can see similarities between animal and humans and it’s because of treatment they get… also emotions (internal connect) plays a big role in being human among humans and being animal among animals; but one can always take advantage by altering it.. and they are still not defined (that’s a big threat to society). What do you say?
When talking about violence and temper, environment contributes but doesn’t always lead. Such situations come after one tries to establish his/her superiority a like tendencies present in animals, other people either back out or they become violent to achieve the superiority. It can be My religion over yours, my color over yours, my gender, my caste, my college or any damn thing!
Deception on the second hand that I think you’re talking about by saying ‘take advantage by altering it’ is another truth. An When a tiger is seen Elephant usually ignores, a cow or a deer try to run away, another tiger may try to challenge it but a FOX… it hides and watches till a kill and snatches and steals away the meat. Similarly the people of these kind make sure they do not get hurt while take a piggy back ride over others achievement or rivalry by altering their emotions.