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Why aren't there any animal ghosts?
The title is probably misleading and vague, but I'm going to let myself get away with it. I'm also going to let me put this in General Discussion instead of Paranoia, although I'm going to see how it goes.
I'm reading a book that's in part about the Chicago Stockyards in the 1930's, and a question has occurred to me. One of the theories about ghosts (if you believe that they exist, which I don't) is that they are the result of emotional energy from trauma/violence/bad things. If that's the case, why isn't a place like the Stockyards haunted by lots of animal ghosts? For decades, they were moving 10,000,000+ animals through the kill floors there, so wouldn't some animal or another leave behind a ghost?
Why is it that humans only leave ghosts? Why don't the animal dead come back to us? Why aren't there ghosts of rabbits that were hunted down by [insert preditor here]? Whenever you hear about animal ghosts, they always seem to be accompanied by humans? Are we somehow an entirely different creature? Why?
I don't have any ideas, but I'm interested to hear what others have to say.
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