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To: marktwain
I don't think animals are driven by emotion...not at all.

They are driven by results.

Humans are plagued by emotions. Animals may have emotions, but they are much less powerful than human emotions.

Wild animals are fighting on the front line of survival (domestic animals are not that removed from the same kind of survival).

Emotions get in the way of survival...however much emotions are experienced by humans and animals, they are a luxury when survival is hanging by a thread.

That said, I live around many yard animals and household pets. I find them to be bright, driven, aggressive...and when they are secure in their position, they can be incredibly loving (i.e. emotional).

21 posted on 09/03/2018 3:29:09 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Wild animals are fighting on the front line of survival (domestic animals are not that removed from the same kind of survival). Emotions get in the way of survival...however much emotions are experienced by humans and animals, they are a luxury when survival is hanging by a thread.

I think you are defining emotions into too small of a corner. Animals feel needs as emotions. The need for food, the need for shelter, the need to protect their young. They do not, generally, think abstractly. Animals will eat their young of they get hungry enough, or even over stressed. Animals work off of competing feelings, that is, emotions.

34 posted on 09/03/2018 4:02:02 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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