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Originally Posted by futrethink  Tina.
1) Is it only we humans that group/regard things in the groups that we call ‘good’ and ‘bad’ or can animals do/feel the same thing even without the words to describe such things??
2) Now, let’s go back to the idea of an adult killing a child in front of its mother. Why is it a bad or an evil thing that is happening?
3) I want you to also tell me why the adult is considered being a ‘bad/evil’ individual? Again, keep it at its most basic level.
$) To think that animal instinct is only a mental state and to exclude the physical state, is to limit your thinking about the entirety of what ‘instinct’ actually is. Is the flight-or-flight instinct and the state of the body, something that arises from the Emotion or Intellect, hmm? |
Futurethink time limitations but will first answer half of #568
1) Animals are amoral and devoid of moral ideas of good/bad
2) Adult is causing extreme emotional pain and destroying life unecessarily. I do not call this evil - I'd call it tragic.
3) I try to have compassion for all people - purely victims of a screwed up world - but people intent on defacing and destroying life evoke ideas in me that they are being "evil'.
4) Animal instinct is more than mental state. I call instinct wisdom because the animal behaves in complete harmony with its genetic imperatives. Hormones, eating habits, mating all acted out in harmony with what they need to do. Ive said this many times - Animals live their life to the fullest - we don't.
Will answer the rest later.