Problem is, my nautical friend... You use the term "animal" presumably to mean everything other than a human.

Many humans show less of what most people would call a moral code than some animals, and vice versa.

Animals don't follow the golden rule? What golden rule? There isn't one! We have evolved slightly differently, but our evolution into what we call intelligence is better / worse / so so as a dog's evolution into having a long tail to help balance. Our back problems, (especially mine) is fundamentally down to not being evolved far enough that our bodies are best suited standing on two legs. Our spine would prefer being back on all four. (Appendix and other leftovers of evolution can get us into as much a debate as pondering whether the God dude had a belly button...)

Oh, and whilst I was trying so hard to have a constructive debate, you blow it by coming out with the old "if that were the case, we would all be rapists." Change the record, that is the waffle God botherers are programmed to say when door stepping normal people.

A load of bollocks unfortunately. My dog doesn't screw everything in sight.

Just the settee, rug, my leg, his cuddly toy...