Should Children Under 16 Be Barred From...
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My answer would be...yes!
Animals seem to sense when you need a cuddle and comfort you when you're sad. People just open their big mouths and make you cry. My cats are members of my family, in many ways I am closer to them than I am most people. They seem to "know" what you're thinking. Does anyone else feel this?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the non-verbal thing i think is the key. we've screwed our instincts up by eating from that old tree of knowledge. hence our intentions and motivations become infinitely more complicated (hence we're different from the rest of nature...)
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at least we can actively decide to be unselfish/altruistic (may not happen much, but is possible) to others not related to us. Not even a lovely tree (in my mind the epitome of perfect natural behaviour) can exhibit such niceness.
the fact of course that we're supposedly endowed with free will isn't a virtue we can take credit for, but what we do with it can better us.
So, thinking about my two retrievers lying on top of each other downstairs, i'd say animals can certainly be pre-disposed to be what we'd call Nice, but i wouldn't say they've got a choice about it.
i guess it comes down to whether you want to give someone credit for their innate/default nature or the direction of their will.
or do you want the long answer? ;-)
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