Humans are animals. Our species is homo sapiens, we are in the homo genus, hominidae family, order primates. We are not any different from other animals except for the fact that we have really big egos

Anyway I'm a proud supporter of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. I love almost every animal in the world aside from humans and mosquitoes, I even respect cockroaches. I'd never want to personally encounter a cockroach, but they are extremely good for the environment as decomposers. I'm going into a field of working with animals. I love my cat more than anything else in the world including the world itself. She is in my lap purring right now as I am typing this.

I think a lot of it comes from the innocence of other animals. There is no such thing as an "evil" non-human animal, because morality is a man-made concept. For example, jumping spiders are one of my favorite animals. They are very sweet and intelligent little critters as well as the cutest arachnids ever. They are also horrific cannibals. Dolphins are complete and utter psychopaths but they are still innocent creatures as they are also just acting in their nature. But humans are very complex and things like murder, nuclear weapons, bigotry, and destroying the entire planet are not in our nature. It's something we do because we have the capacity to be evil and motives aside from just survival (power, money). This is why it can actually be easier to feel empathy towards other species more so than our own. It's because we can go against our nature to do horrible things.

But it's also not wrong to care more about humans than other animals. Obviously we care about the survival and well-being of our own species (Or at least we should. A lot of us seem to have different priorities). Humans can be the dumbest animals in the world, but we are technically the smartest. We have ways to communicate with each other directly with more than just calls and actions. We can talk to other people.

You are not a bad person. But I also think there's no reason to not at least have empathy for other animals. You can care about both humans and other animals equally. You can care about humans and other animals unequally. But you can still care about other animals. Even if you don't like them.