… just can’t see how dogs are in any way superior to frogs, lizards, snakes, turtles, tortises, alligators, crocodiles, and toads.
One opinion is that dogs, cats, and many other mammals have a consciousness and can feel pain and loss. Reptiles have a very small brain with no capacity for consciousness. Whether this is really true is hard to say, but most neuroscientists would agree with that. In other words, reptiles and insects and fish (not aquatic mammals) are mere collections of chemicals and their reactions are simply unconscious built in survival mechanisms. It makes no more sense to pity them than to pity a glass of sulfuric acid. But there’s no way to be sure. I’ll stomp a roach, but a snake I’ll pick up and put somewhere where my wife won’t see him, because I’m not sure where that fine line is.
NyukNyuk2000 said, about 7 hours ago
… just can’t see how dogs are in any way superior to frogs, lizards, snakes, turtles, tortises, alligators, crocodiles, and toads.
One opinion is that dogs, cats, and many other mammals have a consciousness and can feel pain and loss. Reptiles have a very small brain with no capacity for consciousness. Whether this is really true is hard to say, but most neuroscientists would agree with that. In other words, reptiles and insects and fish (not aquatic mammals) are mere collections of chemicals and their reactions are simply unconscious built in survival mechanisms. It makes no more sense to pity them than to pity a glass of sulfuric acid. But there’s no way to be sure. I’ll stomp a roach, but a snake I’ll pick up and put somewhere where my wife won’t see him, because I’m not sure where that fine line is.