Question about free will.

[badgenome]

miz1q2w3e said:

badgenome said:

miz1q2w3e said:

@First paragraph: like I said, maybe you should try checking some stuff out if you want/are interested. For example: link

Thanks for the link. It was interesting, although not anything terribly new to me. (I work in lab animal science and so read a lot of science journals and talk about this sort of stuff a lot.) But it's important not to anthropomorphize these behaviors too much. They are not an example of animal morality. They are more like a primitive system of ethics that is entirely practical for the survival of intelligent, highly social animals.

 

You're welcome :)

Are you religious? That's the only reason I can think of as to why you would speak the way you do about the subject. Otherwise, isn't the bolded the same as with humans?

Ethics is not the same as morality. Morality is individual and can lead to unethical and/or self destructive behavior, and I would argue that it requires free will. No chimpanzee is going to sacrifice itself because it feels it's "the right thing to do", and a chimp isn't capable of asceticism. As I said before, animal behavior is 100% about self preservation and self gratification.

And no, I'm not religious at all.