RE: Do animals have free Will?
February 9, 2012 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2012 at 1:27 pm by Cosmic Ape.)
Why would you ask if animals sin? they have no concept of this make believe judgement system of a god passing laws in their behalf. Other Animals like US of course have the altruistic traits that all social animals need to develop any form of advanced Evolution. Just because one animal came up the ranks and was able to evolve quicker doesnt mean we get to denigrate every other animal on the planet and try to distance them from ourselves by thinking we are somehow more special than other animals even though we are their cousins. Our niche in the world was intelligence, that is something the species either needs or doesnt, it's not necessarily a necessity for survival. You wouldnt ask a snail if it had a god.
Jellyfish have been around for longer than any mammal but it still survives because it's niche is different, any idea of sin is superfluous to its life. And of course sentient animals feel compassion and feel they have some sort of free will to an extent but why put a religious label on it. There are things that are bad for life and good for life, sin is an illusion. The cold hard truth is that we are accountable for each other, the real sin would be to try and hinder your own fellow animal cousins and your own planet by trying to hold us back with the shitty idea of sin. We survived for hundreds and thousands of years without sin, we had to live in tribes and learn that we didnt want to steal and murder each other and it just turned into bullshit stories attached to things they couldnt explain when they really sat down and thought about it.
Let's pretend for a minute you've never played with a dog or cat before. Have you never heard of how complex and deep Elephants are? I could get going for awhile about how "human" they are and in some respects sometimes even more emotional about losing loved ones, let alone having "free will" that's just a term. And besides that, Humans are called Homo-Sapiens, a kind of ape. Thus an animal. Right off the bat you're fractally wrong about what you are.
Jellyfish have been around for longer than any mammal but it still survives because it's niche is different, any idea of sin is superfluous to its life. And of course sentient animals feel compassion and feel they have some sort of free will to an extent but why put a religious label on it. There are things that are bad for life and good for life, sin is an illusion. The cold hard truth is that we are accountable for each other, the real sin would be to try and hinder your own fellow animal cousins and your own planet by trying to hold us back with the shitty idea of sin. We survived for hundreds and thousands of years without sin, we had to live in tribes and learn that we didnt want to steal and murder each other and it just turned into bullshit stories attached to things they couldnt explain when they really sat down and thought about it.
Let's pretend for a minute you've never played with a dog or cat before. Have you never heard of how complex and deep Elephants are? I could get going for awhile about how "human" they are and in some respects sometimes even more emotional about losing loved ones, let alone having "free will" that's just a term. And besides that, Humans are called Homo-Sapiens, a kind of ape. Thus an animal. Right off the bat you're fractally wrong about what you are.
