Morality in dogs? Morality Learned?

[Sal]

I think this is misguided. For example ants, because they don't have the same level of abstraction that we have, can be considered wholly robotic in their behavior when they go out of their way to rescue other ants (yes, they have evolved rescuers), but do these rescue ants just follow an instinctual pattern, or do they really have a concern for the ants they're rescuing?

Just as curiously....do we? Is there a distinction between instinctual patterns and concern? If so, where does that lie. Is it in the volume or the depth of it's outward expression? If so, aren't we just frequently instinctual, or hyper instinctual - relative to ants, in this regard (sometimes...lol)?

I do not know. I reckon we give ourselves an undue position of superiority or specialness apart from the rest of the animal kingdom because we're able to have a level of abstraction seemingly not present in other animals.