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In reply to the discussion: Satan gave man love. Was it worth the hate? [View all]Nitram
(24,892 posts)44. Voltaire, I'm not sure to whom you were addressing your comment above, but...
I would agree with #1 except I wouldn't say "all" because I believe the great apes may also experience emotions that are closer to ours than other animals. I would disagree with #2. Insects, for example, are totally hard-wired with, I would posit, no emotions and no learning behavior(or extremely rudimentary learning behavior). I think all mammals, and probably birds and perhaps even reptiles, probably have some form of emotion, although without the self-consciousness that distinguishes our experience of emotion. We are aware of emotions such as love, hate, sadness as we are having them. I doubt that any but the great apes share that distinction.
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I read the tale of Forbidden Fruit as the moment that humans rejected the role of pets.
Girard442
Sep 2018
#2
I read it as the authors, ie priests, telling everyone they should obey unconditionally
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2018
#47
Personally, I don't care. I don't read any scripture as divinely inspired or as a history book...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2018
#6
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroasterism all acknowledge the essential role what we call "evil" plays
Nitram
Sep 2018
#9
Yes, I'm aware of that, and when I first heard it, a lot of things became clearer...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2018
#13
Such a sweet fairy tale, filled with love, understanding, relationship building...
Ferrets are Cool
Sep 2018
#5
Reality is not sweet, it is filled with love, understanding, relationship building...
Nitram
Sep 2018
#10
I rather doubt that animals feel hate, as we know it. I suspect what they feel is directly
Nitram
Sep 2018
#11
Our notions of good and evil may be no more than sophisticated pack behavior
marylandblue
Sep 2018
#16
Yes, I'm certain we are hard wired for some pack behavior. But as cultural-anthropologists
Nitram
Sep 2018
#17
A troop of Chimpanzees engages in social behavior that is exponentially more complex than
Nitram
Sep 2018
#42
Research shows other mammals seem to experience the same basic emotions we do
marylandblue
Sep 2018
#32
No matter the qualifier or lack thereof I put, you would have argued the point
marylandblue
Sep 2018
#36