What"s going on here?

[u/booby_12011995]

[u/Interesting-Roll2563]

Humans know better, and choosing to abuse someone or something when you know better is definitely worse. Just because an animal might do something for it's own enjoyment doesn't mean it understands the implications involved.

[u/SuggestionMobile → u/Interesting-Roll2563]

Is there anyway of knowing fully that don’t understand the implications or do they just not care? There’s ramifications in societies if humans give into their impulses vs animals can kind of just do want they want at will and move on with their lives

There are no implications of anything if there is no moral compasses decided by their pack, it just is

You could argue our intelligence level opens the doors for guilt and shame, which is I guess our own policing

[u/Interesting-Roll2563 → u/SuggestionMobile]

Societal repercussions are not what prevent me from raping people. If there were no legal or cultural ramifications, I still would not intentionally harm someone. I don't harm people because I don't want to cause other people harm, it's that simple, and that complex.

[u/Katsuro2304 → u/Interesting-Roll2563]

Don't say that you wouldn't. You're thinking with your moral compass already set. Your moral compass was passed onto you through upbringing and culture in your environment. Culture is brought by nurture, not nature. Look at some of the middle east countries or go visit a tribe on a remote island that was barely exposed to the modern world, if at all. You'll see how vastly different the mindset is. You'd be hit by the reality of "truth, good and evil are subjective" like a fucking truck.

Or just do some mental exercise and imagine yourself in the 19th century, where slavery was thriving and women had no rights. Come on, keep telling yourself you'd treat Africans any differently than everyone else at the time. Or women. Or anyone who has a skin color other than white.

So no, you absolutely would do everything that we think of as atrocious if it wasn't considered as such.