I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

The speaker frames their experience in terms of dehumanization and moral numbness: to “feel like an animal” is to feel driven by instinct, stripped of reflective agency, and therefore (they suggest) outside the category of “sin.” The rhetorical question—“animals don’t know sin, do they?”—tests a common moral assumption: sin requires knowledge, intention, and a sense of right and wrong. Read this way, the line can express self-exculpation (denying culpability by denying moral awareness) or, more tragically, a confession of trauma or coercion that has reduced the speaker’s sense of personhood. Its force lies in the uneasy tension between responsibility and diminished capacity.