Animals are no less emotional than we are

Re:Animals are no less emotional than we are by anigbrowl on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:52PM (#19348404)

Come on, you're just hand-waving here as much as the people you're trying to criticize. You don't like the idea that animals have empathy so you invoke delayed gratification as if that were a more common animal trait. Do you really think an animal is going to spend 20 minutes trying to get a tasty snack out of a barrel because it's hungry - and then set it aside for later once it has hold of the snack?

You're right to be cautious about interpreting animal behavior, but you're inadvertently making the same mistake from a different direction.

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Re:Animals are no less emotional than we are by pvaldes on Saturday March 09, 2019 @06:31PM (#19349238)

You are assuming that my goal is to criticize some people. This is wrong. You will not find any name or mention to anybody in my previous post.

You say also that I dislike something so this explains X. As you don't know me, you are not in the position to base your arguments on such claims. Ad-hominem fallacy

Am I "invoking" delayed gratification? where?

> Do you really think an animal is going to spend 20 minutes trying to get a tasty snack out of a barrel because it's hungry - and then set it aside for later once it has hold of the snack?

It depends on the context. If we can see the video we could discusse it properly.

Wild animals stopping what they are doing and running away when they realize there is an human around with a camera? I can see it. Yes. Definitely a very common behaviour.

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Re:Animals are no less emotional than we are by anigbrowl on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:38PM (#19363980)

You obviously dislike the idea in the sense of expending effort to refute it. Surely you can figure out why I would have drawn such an inference from your comments.

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