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Originally Posted by Glenzig
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You're splitting hairs at this point.
Just because I acknowledge that morality exists in the animal kingdom and can see evidence of it does not mean I'm claiming to know where the line is drawn as to whether or not all animals possess it and which ones do/don't.
I describe radical Muslims as animals in the same way that when I make a sandwich a tomato is a vegetable.
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This is where you and I disagree. We can definitely find traits like empathy, compassion, etc. in the animal kingdom but I wouldnt call that morality. Those are only traits we label as moral. Morality is a concept and concepts are formed by abstract thought. If an animal isnt capable of thinking abstractly then it cannot possess a morality. It can have traits that are moral to a morality possessing being like humans but cannot itself have morality.