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Originally posted by Lynyrd Skynyrd
[B]It still is enacted by a minority of even primitive minded animals.
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Primitive minded animals. What does that mean?
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Originally posted by Lynyrd Skynyrd
My point is that even though it may be found in nature that certainly doesn't make it normal or acceptable behavior.
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Very true. Inferring what "ought to be" from what "is" in nature is called the naturalistic fallacy. "Well, it's natural. So, it must be (morally) right" makes no sense. Of course, it doesn't make it morally wrong either.
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Originally posted by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Most animals have little capability of reason or thought. They usually just act on their primitive instincts.
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What is a "primitive instinct"? I'm not sure that I would say that animals have "little capability of reason or thought." Findings in comparative psychology have revealed that animal cognition is far more complex than we had once thought.
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But even then............it's still rarely found even in animals.
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I'm not sure what "rarely" means, but homosexuality has been documented in more than 450 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals .
Biological Exuberance : Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl (Author) provides a good overview of the research