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Originally Posted by futrethink 
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDZW4k8tCY
---This is a video of orcas playing with their food.
2) You don't need a study to tell you that animals feel emotions of some sort, if not some emotions that are exactly the same as a humans.
3) As I put forward already, you can't have a human or any capable being instigating ‘evil’ or even understanding what evil is until that singular being interacts with anything else. That is the root cause of evil.
4)... you want to eliminate non-humanity from being evil. - Fire is neither good nor evil and yet, it can be perceived as such in the context in which it is placed.
5) Until you have interaction, you can’t cause pain to another if there is not another to cause pain to, you can’t describe evil if there is nothing to learn from about what evil is, et al.
6) Do you want to know what is evil to me? The fact that we humans... haven’t learned to not repeat history. |
1) I only perceived the orcas as using strategies to reach their food...that ice is heavy you know. But emotionally the video made me feel 'sad' about the necessity of the food chain.
2) IMO humans and animals share instinctive SURVIVAL emotions: Fear/anger/happiness/sadness/surprise/disgust. In animals these emotions are pure - in humans, emotions are bound up with intellect (ie we interpret, add dimensions to, and make value judgements about what we feel emotionally).
3 & 5) Regarding interaction:Yes 'evil' manifests through interaction - but I ask again is it inevitable that 'evil' manifests through interaction? )
NB:Pain to me is necessary for survival - its presense warns us that somethig is wrong and/or to avoid something.
4) Fire is fire - we know its causes - we know its effects! But ultimately fire is necessary for survival.
5) see 3 above
6) History will repeat because the 'root of evil' has not changed.