Right - the Taliban aren't against music, just against music that isn't what they aren't against. And you can't count a desire to survive as a HUMAN thing, it's a LIVING thing. And any social species communicates, and in that I include a lot of plants. But music *IS* a *human* universal, which is NOT to say that it is ONLY human.

Now, whether we can all rally 'round that flag is another story; what "passes for" music in some cultures is random noise to others...