XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, rec.pets.cats.misc, rec.pets.birds   
      
   On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:42:41 GMT, Rudy Canoza  wrote:   
      
   >dh@. wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   >Yes.  Shevvie did not make an adult response.  Neither   
   >did you.   
      
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