Come to it, we're all animals, in more ways than one. Having looked into pretty basic observations, I can no longer deny it and pretend I'm fair. In truth, most of us humans are no better than your average stray dog in a gutter. The glitter on our civilization in no more than the sign of our most elevated perversion, we're simply concealing our shameful bestiality in it.
Everywhere you look, the first thing you see is the illusion of being more than the animal, that mankind successfully perpetuates. Human traits. Honour. Love. Kindness. All random and occasional, as magisterially explained by de Sade.
There's no honour among beasts. Just terror and fear, and the never-ending screams and moans.