Animals, do they have the capacity to feel?
Many religion believe animals don't have souls and therefore are incapable of feeling others believe that because animals don't have the capacity to experience suffering/or enjoyment since they lack the ability for higher consciousness they cannot feel. while some believe they are unconscious beings or conscious automata what is your stance?
- Of course!Yes!All the No points
Animals, do they have the capacity to feel?
Yes because... No because...Of course!
It is obvious that animals have the capacity to experience feelings such as enjoyment or suffering. All forms of life can experience such sensations. The difference between man and (the other) animals is that, according to Aristotle, man is a political animal. This does not mean only that men live along with other men, because ever wolves live with other members of their species. Man is a political animal in the sense that he has the power of speech and the ability to distinguish between wrong and right. In other words, men do not use language only to communicate their feelings, like (the other) animals, but to make moral judgments as well.
Animals, do they have the capacity to feel?
Yes because... No because...Yes!
When considering this, people remember that humans are also animals. Granted, not ALL animals feel, but many do. Dolphins are also the only other animal, other than humans, that have intercourse for pleasure. How can they NOT feel? Although animals may not have the complexity of thought process that we as humans posess, they do have a capacity to feel emotion. If they did not, a dog would not cry when left out in the rain. A herd of elephants would not cover their dead and sit by the corpse for over an hour. Animals DO feel.
Animals, do they have the capacity to feel?
Yes because... No because...Fear is a feeling
Fear is what alerts animals that something is wrong. Fear is an emotion. It is part of an animals survival instinct.
Animals, do they have the capacity to feel?
Yes because... No because...animals have no narrative about pain
The idea that animals cannot remember the past or think about the future is a complete myth. A vast amount of research has shown animals of all types to remember what has caused them pain in the past and avoid it, including rats, dogs and even fish who avoid hooks for up to a year after being hooked once [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6995533/Three-second-fish-memory-a-myth.html]]. Animals have just the same feelings and functions as we do.
If you hurt an animal, it will experience the pain of that moment. However, it cannot anticipate pain in the future, remember pain very far into the past, worry about or make sophisticated stories about pain. It does not have an inner life whose quality can be reduced.
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