Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago

Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by jankyxenon on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:35AM (#39217802)

Frame your argument a little differently - you're saying you can't be proud / ashamed of anything your parents have done (that you didn't contribute to).

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Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by ehwhwhwhahhwh on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:03PM (#39218194)

Of course. How is it so hard to understand?

Will you send a child to prison for crimes committed by their parents if the parents ended up dead by the time found guilty?

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Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by jankyxenon on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:34PM (#39221767)

Pride or shame is by definition a feeling not legal culpability. A feeling.

Human brains seem wired to have strong feelings about their kin or tribe. So, yes, I would think having neutral feelings about your parents would be a hard thing to understand for most people.

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Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by ehwhwhwhahhwh on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:01AM (#39240396)

I think the point is not the body is capable of creating irrational thoughts and emotions. That's well established.

The point is logically it makes no sense to be proud of something which you had no role to play.

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Re:Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Eu... by jankyxenon on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:45PM (#39253645)

From a purely logical point of view - there's not much point to anything humans do.

Can you break down what the logic of pride should be? Any who determines what that should is. You seem to imply that there's an objective standard for that.

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