From:
"Muldoon, Dan"
Date: 2005-02-01 14:57:36 UTC
Subject: Ferrets and their (in)ability to deliberate
To: "Ferret Health List" <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-ID: <30A4F4621732394FA61AB7B5F5EF08B2016CC234@condor2.creighton.edu>
That professor is contradicting himself by asserting that "we can't
prove that they deliberate because we can't tell what is going on in
their heads," then turning around and saying, "they have been
experimented on...so much that it has been scientifically proven that
they do not have the ability to do this."
"Enlightened" thinkers often like to address beliefs in "unprovable"
phenomena by arguing that "people believe because they want to believe."
But such folks often fail to realize (or conveniently forget) that the
door swings both ways. Stephanie, I wouldn't be surprised if that
professor dismisses anything conflicting with his conviction that
animals cannot reason. Some people seem to hope so much that Homo
sapiens has a monopoly on rational thought, that anything to the
contrary is unbearable.
Daniel F. Muldoon, Ph.D.
Omaha, NE
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:58:12 +0000 (GMT), smb11@uakron.edu
<mailto:smb11@uakron.edu> wrote:
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Today, one of my professors stated that animals don't have the ability
to deliberate therefore they cannot reason or be rational....
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Thanks,
Stephanie, Max, Jack, & Oscar
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