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Originally Posted by Ilikeindowem  Letting it be should be accepting that humans are cruel and not doing anything about it. |
That's ok if you want. You can't be mentally violent and at peace though.
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Originally Posted by Arcanum So if the lion knew what he was doing, he would become a vegetarian?? |
The lion isn't going to know what he's doing. I can't answer hypotheticals as if they were real possibilities.
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Originally Posted by Arcanum Fighting over a mate has genetic advantages for the species. The lion isn't trying to be good or moral, it's just responding spontaneously to it's nature. |
Right. Neither are humans trying to be good and moral most of the time. They are seldom conscious and seldom make conscious ethical decisions. If you test them on ethical behavior they fail usually. If you remind them of their code and then test, almost everyone passes. They are just running on emotional autopilot usually.
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Originally Posted by Arcanum The notion that such an animal would not behave as it does if it knew better is already the judgment of the behavior that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, and it's this judgment that leads to suffering. |
Huh? I didn't say it would act differently. It's a lion.
