Wow, what kind of animals do you have in your life!!!

Seriously, it's the same kind of thing that differentiates us from animals in other ways, like, why we don't have sex simply out of instinct for procreation, why we can expand thoughts and create, etc.

Unlike animals, we have compassion

It is engrained in every human to seek out love, in that we do good for others. [If that made any sense]

That makes absolutely no sense at all my lady but i still hope your feeling better in spite of your inablity to make sense -

Ill be over shortly -

okay let me explain a little more...If you look at every religion they are generally based in peace and love. So even if religion was only a man-made concept, they it would seem that we would seek out love. Not love in a sense of sexual or familial love. But in that there should be some kind of balance or peace.

T said

[qoute]okay let me explain a little more...

If you look at every religion they are generally based in peace and love.

So even if religion was only a man-made concept, they it would seem that we would seek out love. Not love in a sense of sexual or familial love. But in that there should be some kind of balance or peace.

cats dont have to answer they already know why - and they could care less if we dont -

They sure want to know the meaning of "why isn't this bowl full?"!!!! Well, they usually share everything else with me, little smartasses that they are, so they should impart such pearls of wisdom to me. They know we were made to accommodate their preferred lifestyle, that's for DARN SURE!!! I've been TOLD!!!

WHY DO WE FEEL THE NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER?

WHY DON'T WE [LIKE THE ANIMALS] JUST LET WHATEVER HAPPENS TO OTHERS JUST HAPPEN AND ACCEPT IT AS A NORMAL THING??

wHAT IS THIS MORAL OBLIGATION TO HELP THOSE IN NEED? WHY DON'T WE [LIKE THE ANIMALS] JUST LET WHATEVER HAPPENS TO OTHERS JUST HAPPEN AND ACCEPT IT AS A NORMAL THING??

Because contrary to what the Bible claims, we're actually nice.



I've personally seen animals exhibit campassion and caring.

They probably don't go into it in depth simply because of their mental limitations to dwell on things in great detail.

But I have definitely seen animals exhibit concern over the anguish of another animals, and over the anguish of humans.

I've seen large dogs protect smaller dogs. I've seen pet dogs protecting pet cats, and children from external threats. I've seem them appear to show concern when others are hurt.

You'll never convince me that they have no clue what they are doing.

I've also watched wildlife shows where mother animals appear to be very concerned about the wellbeing of their babies.

In fact, Just the other day I was driving down the road and a large flock of turkeys started to cross the road in front of me. I stopped and watch. The adult turkeys appeared to be to be very concerned about getting all their little babies across the road. They stood around like school gaurds and waited for the younger birds to cross.

Clearly there's some sense of 'society' going on there. They aren't just out for every bird for itself.

That's just a gross misconception of what's going on.

They may not have the cerebral depth to logically take it to the extremes that humans do. But I think they clearly have some level of compassion.

We aren't as different from animals as we'd like to believe.

I don't equate "moral obligation" with "desire to help".

Moral obligation is a result of having agreed to follow a set of rules.

Morals are simply rules or laws. The “agreement to follow” is the obligation part.

On the other hand, “desire to help” is a result of ethics, which is distinctly different from morals. Ethics are the personal choices we make to contribute to (or detract from) the welfare and/or happiness of ourselves and others.

So one could help others because of an agreement that that is the thing one should do. Or one could help others because one thinks that helping them would increase one’s own welfare and/or happiness – or at least mitigate a decrease.