• @Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    261 month ago

    Yeah it’s bullshit. Pro-social animals like dogs, primates, elephants understand group norms and social expectations e.g. appeasement behaviour. Its probably how our own “morality” developed as a species.

    And there’s evidence to suggest some species like dolphins absolutely do exhibit moral type behaviour like fairness and cooperation.

    • @the_q@lemm.ee
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      31 month ago

      Your examples, and honestly calling it bullshit, operate under your human understanding of right and wrong.

    • Lemminary
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      41 month ago

      This homo bragging about being a kween. Work, bitch! 💅

  • @bampop@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Right and wrong is one thing, sin is another. Sin is doing stuff that God says not to do, morality doesn’t really come into it. Cats can’t sin because they don’t have theistic religion.

    • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      61 month ago

      Cats are their own gods. Letting them see the bottom of their food bowl is a mortal sin and you will burn in kitty hell for it.

    • @Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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      11 month ago

      Defying an authority figure is not a sin. What if it tells you to do something bad, like slit your sons throat and burn the body? Defining sin as questioning authority is BS.

      • @bampop@lemmy.world
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        That is precisely what differentiates sin from evil. It’s why we have two words for those two things. Abraham would not have sinned by killing Isaac as ordered. But it would have been an evil act, and stupid and insane

    • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Homo Sapiens, subfamiliy homininae, suborder Haplorhini, is a animal too.

      Btw, chimpanzee wage war and crows bully in groups.

    • @leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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      21 month ago

      Cats are definitely evil. Adorably so, sure, yet evil nonetheless.

      Dolphins, too. Cruel, rapey bastards, the lot of them. Orcas in particular probably enjoy killing and hurting their prey almost as much as cats.

      Most birds are evil in a stupid birdbrained sort of way, even the smart ones. Should’ve gone extinct sixty-five million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs, the bastards.

      Chimpanzees are almost as creepily evil as humans (not bonobos, though; they just want to get along and fuck as much as possible).

      And then there’s us.

    • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      Evil is a human definition. I’m sure there have been tigers/bears/sharks/hippies that have gone on killing sprees that have been defined by humans as evil, though they were working well within their own natural framework of aggression.

      *I meant hippoes, not hippies, but the statement stands.