Mark Twain has shown many ugly traits of human in THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE. Here's my opinion. Mark Twain thought that man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country and always take possession of others. I don’t agree with him. It’s very ridiculous to define mankind good or bad only by their behavior. I think Mark Twain explained human’s behavior with prejudice. In the world of other animals, these things just happen all the time. Even if we put away the case about different kinds of animals, we can see that even of the same kind they always take away others’ possession. Lions will fight just for some land or space, even there’s still a lot of land to live. Gorillas will fight with each other for a spouse, sometimes they will not stop fighting until one of them died. I think we can totally understand the animals’ behavior because they have no thought, no mind, thus they just can’t find a way to solve the problem properly. In their world violence is the only way to get or to take from others. But in man’s world they just don’t put it this way. Mankind has created many civilized ways to solve various problems. What’s more, I think pillage is the product of the development of human society. With the development of human society, people are inevitably exposed to different human civilization, from which they can be aware of the existence of others nations. Since the development degree of different nations is not the same, there’re some of them more advanced, then there must be some of them fall behind. Since that everyone has his own desire, it should be no surprise that there will be the pillaging ones and the pillaged ones. In a word, if plunder exists in human’s world, as Mark Twain said, then we can draw a conclusion likewise, this kind of plunder exists in every species’ world. It is not reasonable to judge human as “lower animals”.