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Posted 2003-07-29, 10:19 PM
in reply to RandomThought's post "What would you change?"
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That is just my point though. Why does our interaction necessarily make up what it means to have a soul? Just because animals don't recognize our behaviors and speaking pattern, doesn't mean that their behaviors and way of interacting with each other is wrong or flawed. Instinctive patterns and reproduction is just a way we classify animals and their purpose on life. We don't know exactly how they interact, or why they do everything they do.
Example, just because we recognize that playing soccer is a sociably acceptable form of interaction, doesn't mean that animals don't have their own form of fun. It just means that we don't recognize it, and this is simply because we don't interact like they do, so how could we? For all we know, when they see us, in their own mind, they might be thinking, "Wow, what a deprived silly form of life they are. Why would they even want to do something like that when they have obligations to feed themselves and their families?" Of course, this is considered outlandish to us, but who knows?
Again, with the whole elk and wolf example, the only reason that doesn't happen is because they don't think it was wrong. If it wasn't illegal to murder humans, I'm sure people would do it for fun, but like I've stated many times, that is just because our culture, our world we constructed now has rules, laws, etc that we follow. Just because animals don't, doesn't mean they don't have souls.
Rivers don't have souls because they aren't living organisms. A river doesn't show emotion, or behavior patterns, it is just land that hold water flow a certain way.


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