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Originally Posted by zen_tom
Yes - of course we are exempt from this  it's what makes us different from all of those creatures. When was the last time you saw animals such as these build a city, invent farming, form governments, create technology and pay taxes?
It's precisely BECAUSE we are able to step beyond simple stimulus/response behaviours that we are able to have this discussion today. |
lots of animals have social structures and build cities, not in the same traditional sense of tall skyscrapers but there are animals that do build things from hives to underground structures of termites, ants, prarie dogs. Governments are just fancy words for social structures, all animals have some sort of social heirarchy when they gather in groups. Technology? Chimpanzees have been known to make and use tools. It's not a computer but it's still a technology. Otters do it to to open sea urchins. Farming... ants farm aphids. Some even raid other ants colonies and create slaves.
and if you do a search here I believe that Ustwo put up a link regarding Chimpanzees commiting acts of violence on other members.
The only thing left is taxes, which no one can corroborate since there would have to be a currency structure.
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