• zqwzzle@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Do most animals choose between right and wrong, or are they acting on instinct?

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          8 months ago

          We used to think that animals couldn’t feel pain now we know plants can. The whole idea animals just go off instinct is wildly outdated and comes from the junk science era of fascist human supremacy. They probably do have morals and they definitely don’t align with ours.

          That being said insects have a pretty good case for being instinct only considering they live such short lives but then again some bugs can go as far as recognize faces so maybe we’re vastly underestimating their capabilities too. Slight tangent, their vision is also a lot better than we give them credit for too, segmented eyes have basically infinite depth of field and the vision quality isn’t as bad as one would think.

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            8 months ago

            We used to think that animals couldn’t feel pain now we know plants can.

            There’s a real big [citation needed] on this sentence.

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      8 months ago

      I was going to say Sea-Min-Pin but the OP never used “on PCP” as a descriptor.