One shouldn't be better than animals? If you think that is true, why don't you labotomize any rationality out of your brain so you can be completely animal? Animals aren't noble or great. They have no ability to even know what such things are. They have no clue what the divine is, nor do they have any sense of their selves.

They are bound and controlled. They are dominated by their impulses, their instincts, and have no freedom. Humanity has the ability to overcome such a condition of slavery.