dsgrue3 on 20 December 2012
| JoeTheBro said: Lots of animals are self aware. In fact I'm kinda disappointed at how primitive society thinks animals are. Most animals have an understanding of their coming death and it is defiantly not exclusive to humans. Elephants for example mourn their dead and have ritualistic behavior about it. Animals have many complex rituals for mating and the like so why is it so far fetched that they'd have religious rituals? If we can prove animals naturally develop religion we can prove human religion is wrong. |
No they don't have any understanding of their coming death. Absurd, unsubstantiated claim with not a modicum of evidence. Elephants mourning death doesn't mean they understand that it is going to happen, it means it happened and now they mourn. Same with dogs. It's simply causality.
| Proclus said: Because they're not as big a idiots as mankind... Hey, you asked... |
Worst post in the thread. Congrats.
