Quiz 13

Stephen Budiansky does not agree with what Peterson is saying or thinking about the relationship between human morality and the social lives of animals. If Midgley had an opinion about it she would probably discuss the principle of parcimony which is the simplest and stingiest solution. Midgley would reject the principle of parcimony because it is simpler not to attribute any human life portrayed to humans. She is not okay with people saying that we have no evidence what so ever that animals take human emotion. I believe that animals do have emotions but nothing like humans do. We are completely different kinds of species, for example, we humans communicate with each other in a completely different way than animals do. We speak a language with words out of our mouths, and they speak to one another with body language. This also goes for how they share their emotions with each other, they use body language and we speak out with words. A perfect example that goes against parcimony would be how the gorilla saved the boy. Although, researchers had clarified why the gorilla had saved the little boy is because she was trained to carry a doll and bring it to her keepers, and then she would get something like a prize for doing the right thing. They had trained the gorilla to do this because they wanted her to develop normal maternal instincts. This here is the prime reason why people put a barrier up between humans and animals.