If you think otherwise you are wrong

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        i think animals understand more than we think, and we understand less than we think. we are products of our environment too, somewhat.

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          4 months ago

          I doubt they have the same ability to understand the world and their impact on it. They don’t have written knowledge or education systems. My point is that as humans we have this huge store of shared knowledge and experience that spend millennia, and yet despite all of this we still insist on treating each other and the world like complete shit.

          Cats, dogs and animals in general do not have that, and to suggest that they do is laughable. They are innocent in that they simply do what their instincts and personal life experience has taught them.

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            4 months ago

            Thats a good point, but despite humans ability to think, I see many people living life just like that: Relying on their instincts and recent life experience without a drop of tought beyond that.