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The Role Of Animals In Wild Justice

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Wild Justice was not a book publishing new research as it was a new take on old research. Bekoff and Pierce wished to show that prior research has shown that animals do have at least a form of morality. They also claim that the only reason that people are hesitant at calling it morality is that they wish to believe that morality is something that is unique to the human race. Some people who really do not want to face the fact that animals might have morality. They claim that the researchers are just anthropomorphizing the animals. Stephen Jay Gould said “Yes, we are human and cannot avoid the language and knowledge of our own emotional experience when we describe a strikingly similar reaction observed in another species.”(Bekoff andPierce p.42) The seven deadly sins and their opposite virtues are lust to chastity, gluttony to temperance, greed to charity, sloth to diligence, wrath to patience, envy to …show more content…

Envy is all animals as when they see what another has they want that as well. They also do not wish to receive less than others, they want as much or more than what other got. Humans are almost exactly the same as animals when it comes to Envy. Animals are capable of kindness both the ones in the wild and the domestic one. Feral children can be seen as an example of kindness in wild animals. An example of kindness in animals can be seen in the video “Morality and the Emotional Brain” “in the study two monkeys both in cages…the monkey on the right learned that to get food he had to pull the cord, but he also came to realize that whenever he pulled the cord that the other monkey would shriek. The reason that it would shriek is because when he pulled the cord they would shock the other monkey. Now what is striking about this study is that very quickly that monkey on the right stopped pulling the

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