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Moral law in Humans and other animals

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Moral law in Humans and other animals
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RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals
February 27, 2015 at 11:03 pm
(February 23, 2015 at 9:19 am)ManMachine Wrote: It's an error to believe we do 'ignore our basic animalistic sense of eat or be eaten', we just do it in a very strategic way. We might not recognise what we do as 'animal' but we are animals, evolution tells us this and any sense that we are 'special' of 'different' is just hubris.

In answer to your question, your dog is a clever strategist and recognises the needs of the pack even though some of that pack is human.

MM
Couldn't it be argued that we too are just clever strategists who recognize that it's wiser not to disrupt the heard?
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Moral law in Humans and other animals

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RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by reed - February 22, 2015 at 2:17 pm
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by abaris - February 22, 2015 at 2:57 pm
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by reed - February 22, 2015 at 3:57 pm
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by Brian37 - February 22, 2015 at 4:18 pm
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by tantric - February 23, 2015 at 9:12 am
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by Anomalocaris - February 27, 2015 at 11:51 pm
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by ManMachine - February 23, 2015 at 9:19 am
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by The Reality Salesman - February 27, 2015 at 11:03 pm
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by Mudhammam - February 28, 2015 at 12:06 am
RE: Moral law in Humans and other animals - by Mudhammam - February 28, 2015 at 1:14 am

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