The method of tyranny is to call a penultimate ultimate. Tyranny is a superficial vedantha . 174 Happiness burns merit. Animals are unaware that they are alive. They are unaware that they die.
Humans are aware of both living and dying.
Therefore, to compare humans with animals is ludicrous. Usually, but not always, that agency is a human hand. Hardly ever is anyone fully wrong. Usually, each of us is right so far as we go, which could be more or less or more and less depending on the time and the circumstance. But almost never is one of us absolutely wrong.