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UPDATED: Sunday, January 30, 2011 13:03
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Sunday, January 30, 2011 6:56 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:23 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Once in a while I read something... it had to do with whether animals feel what we do. It was in Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams. And what it said... and I cannot possibly do justice to the book... is that people can moderate their feelings. They can envision a future. They can remember the past. They can rationalize their grief, and their joy.

But animals...feel everything that we feel... terror, satisfaction, love and devotion, and grief... without the ability to rationalize. As if it were the only thing in the universe. That animals are in the forever now, and we should take pity on them.

I pity them. Indeed, I do.

http://books.google.com/books?id=3orNyGbV_tkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=p
lague+dogs&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=rJxFTe7FH4L2tgO2_4WzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:03 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



I pity those who think animals don't have emotions.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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