Re:Heroic rat retiring from detecting land mines
by CoastalCoder on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:41PM
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Not GP, but for me it's a matter of striving to reason clearly and correctly. I try to avoid slipping into pleasant error on any topic, because I don't want mental habits that let me do that with important topics.
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Re:Heroic rat retiring from detecting land mines
by zaybqp on Friday June 04, 2021 @07:07PM
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The error here is thinking that the rat is in danger when doing its job and that the word heroic cannot be used to describe non-human.
From Webster, heroic: of a kind that is likely only to be undertaken to save a life.
This rat's work has saved lives. So, we can call it heroic. It is not even anthropomorphic strictly speaking.