XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, rec.pets.cats.misc, rec.pets.birds   
      
   On 18 May 2005 12:01:13 -0700, "Rudy Canoza"  wrote:   
      
   >shevek4@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >> Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >> > gay merrington wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > > Animals,most if not all,DO experience emotion but certainly not   
   >in   
   >> a way we   
   >> > > as humans understand.   
   >> >   
   >> > Primitive emotions:  fear, aggression, anger.  They do   
   >> > NOT experience disappointment, dashed hope, envy,   
   >> > Schadenfreude, exultance, pride.  Humans *project*   
   >> > those emotions onto animals, because those are the   
   >> > emotions humans might feel if they had been in some   
   >> > situation in which they see animals.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> In fact no other humans experience those emotions either, only Rudy.   
   >> Humans *project* Rudy's emotions onto each other, because those are   
   >the   
   >> emotions Rudy might feel if he had been in some situation in which we   
   >> see each other.   
   >   
   >Not an adult response.   
      
       That's the point Goo. Yours was stupid, ignorant, and childish, so   
   he mimicked you. It's pretty funny, but you don't get it.   
      
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