And philospophers and psychiatrists often do.

It's all down to the lens you want to see the world through or choose to, or can't get away from.

But it's curious, with philosphers, religious types, even the Greek stoics, why it always takes being stripped down raw and reduced to the meanest of circumstances by human violence to make these "profound" observations when truly loving a pet, walking in the world with your eyes open till you can feel the Earth's heartbeat in the palms of your hands, hugging a tree, standing in brotherhood and harmony with that circle of life would teach you the same thing.

The real question here is why are humans so terrified of standing in that circle, particularly those decendant from Abrahamic faith traditions?

You said it yourself.

Why are most people so repulsed by seeing themselves as an animal, that they deny that very simple fact behind things that are ultimately self destructive, like hubris, pride, and the fanciful intellect of abstraction?