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There is nothing at all wrong with Wiki if you know how to use it....Obviously you don't.
Dr. Guldberg gave herself away with the phrase "Darwinian evoltion", most commonly used by creationists... I do not agree with her and I'm in good company... do animals have a sense of morality - Google Search
What are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a younger one after she was injured by a rambunctious teenage male? Or a rat who refused to push a lever for food when he saw that doing so caused another rat to be shocked? Aren’t these clear signs that animals have recognizable emotions and moral intelligence? Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, Bekoff, Pierce
You have demonstrated that their is disagreement in the scientific community over this issue. That isn't all that earth shattering - except that before I cited the excerpt from Dr. Guldberg's book - you were acting as if there is a monolithic mode of thinking with everybody in lockstep.
I read the article in its entirety - you seem to have missed the main idea that she was making - which is that human beings are fundamentally different than animals because of our ability to make moral decisions and our ability to "draw on the collective knowledge of humanity.
Cherrypicking sentences while missing the central thesis - as you have done is intellectually dishonest - and as I quoted - the author mentions your motivation.
It is invalid.
You? You are talking about cherry picking? That is hilarious!
I read the article in its entirety - you seem to have missed the main idea that she was making - which is that human beings are fundamentally different than animals because of our ability to make moral decisions and our ability to "draw on the collective knowledge of humanity".
Cherrypicking sentences while missing the central thesis - as you have done - is intellectually dishonest - and as I quoted - the author mentions your motivation.
It is invalid.
Here is another snippet from her article... "Human beings, unlike other animals, are able to reflect on and make judgements about our own and others' actions, and as a result we are able to make considered moral choices."
Here is another snippet from her article... "Human beings, unlike other animals, are able to reflect on and make judgements about our own and others' actions, and as a result we are able to make considered moral choices."
Very good - now what is the main point of the book excerpt?
You have demonstrated that their is disagreement in the scientific community over this issue. That isn't all that earth shattering - except that before I cited the excerpt from Dr. Guldberg's book - you were acting as if there is a monolithic mode of thinking with everybody in lockstep.
Thank you for proving that there isn't.
That is only your perception and wrong as usual...By the way the spelling is there, not their...Spell check can't help you there...
Were you just not paying attention in the 3rd grade?
My 3rd grade teacher was very attractive...
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