Hi Elias!!You're right , I'm just impressed negatively when I see people who prefer to leave a big heritage to their dog.the same thing happens invest a lot of money to animals (it's not bad) more than people who are the most needful.don't forget that an animal cannot cook a Caffè for us or give us love we need more than human beings. Animal is animal and Human is human.i really think we are going to give the first place to human beigns the second thing I've noticed is when I see everyone with the earphones listening maybe a music so today we have more relationship with things and sometimes we forget that a human beings is near us.The consequences of all of that is solitude and that very bad to prefer interact with things and animals which cannot talk....

Indeed, human beings are capable of great evil and destruction. :(

Hi Jacob, This is a great question. Technology has become more influential in our lives with the advent of the Internet. It has moved so fast in the last 10 to 20 years and while we have made real positive advancements (e.g. iTalki would never have been possible without technological advancements!) I think we have become less capable of appreciating the simple things in life, and it has reduced our capacity to interact on a personal level and made us arguably more enslaved. As technology and social media has improved, we have become more aware of the rights of animals and the animal abuses that take place in each society (whether it is by industry or otherwise) and this is fundamentally a good thing. Many people hold that believe animals have the same rights as human beings and that we shouldn't for instance kill and eat meat (but rather become vegans and vegetarians). There are also people I know that say they would save the life of a dog or a cat before they would save the life of a stranger. Perhaps this is because human beings are capable of great evil and destruction (as much as they are capable of wonderful things) in ways that animals could never be or that we have destroyed the habitats and ecological environments of many animals, often but not in all cases, for our own economic advantage. Or it may be because animals are generally regarded as innocent by nature and incapable of evil intent. This view is very common in western societies (I'm generalising a bit here) where the need to depend on animals as food is also perhaps less strong than poorer countries and societies where it might be necessity for survival. I guess ultimately human beings have a responsibility to care for and look after animals and treat them with respect, much in the same way that humans beings need to love each other and treat each other with respect and dignity.