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Stupid American hunter defends killing giraffe: They are 'very dangerous animals'

There are guilty animals?

I mean, animals have been put on trial and found guilty.

In my own experience, dogs can definitely show awareness that the thing they're doing is not something approved of by humans. The attempt to hide the thing seems pretty conclusive to me.

At the end of the day, humans are also animals and are guilty of stuff all the time. Also, I think it's a mistake to assume that non-human animals are all somehow inherently virtuous creatures. Such a beast might not have the faculties to mastermind any kind of "evil plan" of the kind of scale and complexity that can be done by a human,, but it hardly seems implausible for certain individuals to be capable of the kind of low-level assholishness that doesn't demand much foresight or planning.

Some animals display an aversion to social inequity. Such species would seem to be likely candidates for being able to possess at least a crude form of moral judgement.
 
I mean, animals have been put on trial and found guilty.

In my own experience, dogs can definitely show awareness that the thing they're doing is not something approved of by humans. The attempt to hide the thing seems pretty conclusive to me.

At the end of the day, humans are also animals and are guilty of stuff all the time. Also, I think it's a mistake to assume that non-human animals are all somehow inherently virtuous creatures. Such a beast might not have the faculties to mastermind any kind of "evil plan" of the kind of scale and complexity that can be done by a human,, but it hardly seems implausible for certain individuals to be capable of the kind of low-level assholishness that doesn't demand much foresight or planning.

Some animals display an aversion to social inequity. Such species would seem to be likely candidates for being able to possess at least a crude form of moral judgement.
Robert Sapolsky's book A Primate's Memoir chronicles the author's time studying baboons and getting into various scrapes with humans in Africa. He describes the baboons as assholes at one point. Spend half their time thinking up new ways to be mean to one another.
 
We are the most dangerous animals on this planet.

We fight amongst ourselves and attack each other over bits of metal and paper and glass. We hunt animals for "sport", eat them and wear their coats. We create and stockpile WMDs because of fear and paranoia. And we wage war amongst ourselves over beliefs.

And now we're polluting our only home so it won't be habitable for future generations.
 
I don’t have a problem with American hunters, but shouldn’t they be shooting Americans animals as God clearly intended?
Having worked their way through all the buffalo, bears etc on their own continent they're now planning to finish the job on a global basis
 
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