Good advice from Mr. Beaver. Keep your head on a swivel, your eyes on the exits, and your senses situationally aware when you're dealing with what isn't human, but says it is; used to be human, but isn't anymore; or should be human, but isn't for some reason. Artificial Intelligence and social media algorithms obviously come to mind, but also people who are given over to base thinking.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient
When people give themselves over to insanity, God sometimes let's them have it.
Psalm 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
But being a beast is only bad in situations where being a man is essential. There is nothing inherently evil about getting hungry or tired like the beasts do. The issue is not sharing anything with the animals, but in failing to exhibit the attributes of an image bearer of God when those are what the situation demands.
"Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts. When we blame a man for being 'a mere animal' we mean not that he displays animal characteristics (we all do) but that he displays these, and only these, on occasions where the specifically human was demanded. (When we call him 'brutal' we usually mean that he commits cruelties impossible to most real brutes; they're not clever enough.)" -- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
A man acting like animal when he should be acting like a man or acting in a manner no animal or man should ever act is something of which to be wary. When you see people acting like this, keep your head on straight and feel for your hatchet at your hip.
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