jcardona1;1979311; said:LMAO this is ridiculous. animals dont have emotions and feelings. they dont have the mental capacity to do so. this is typical USA delusional thinking
Actually apes, dolphins, elephants and such clearly have highly amazing mental capacities and some rather complex emptional responses. Heck some of them have self awareness!! (which is pretty much the key to gaining awareness of others.... awarness of others which is the key to obtaning feelings of empathy and such... which is basically what makes us so different!). Its typical HUMAN thinking to believe that these are unique to our specie because we are THE one and only unique, intelligent and important specie....
One of the differences between us and animals used to be that we were the sole specie to have ever used weapons to hunt... now they discovered some apes have learned to sharpen the tips of long branches, and then use it to spear little mammals!
Ya I'm not going to compare the intelligence of a chipmunk and that of a human, there is no need to bother, but to put all animals in the same basket is not exactly clever either.
They used to train dolphins in WW to spear human dumies with sharp objects that had been attached to thier nozzles. The goal was to get them to kill enemy divers and thus patrol where humans could not patrol so well. When the dolphins stabbed a human dummy they would recieve a fish as reward. The dolphins were trained like this without any problem. This dolphin mission did not last long though... you know why?
When they sent the dolphins on actual missions, to stab actual people, this is what happened. The dolphins would each stab a person ONCE and then would refuse doing it again. They had been trained with dummies, but when they actually stabbed fleshed people, and saw the blood gush out and the people signaling distress and twitching in agony... they would never do it again afterwards. They understood that they were harming these people, and regardless of their "fish reward" conditionning, they made a deliberate choice not to make people suffer.
Well of course the project thus was a total failure, because the dolphins would stab once and then become "useless", and some of them that had witnessed well what had happened then refused to do it as well.
With humans however, all it takes is a little brain washing and conditionning (sometimes drugs) and they become rutheless killing machines that blindly obey any given orders!
