>Just one (familiar) example: dogs. You can honestly sit there and tell me
>that you've never seen a dog exercise moral judgement?
I can honestly sit here and tell you that I have never seen a dog exercise
moral judgment.
I just can't believe
>that. If such is the case (that you've never seen it), then we must be
>equivocating on the word "judgement." Just because a being doesn't create
>legal systems and many various branches of moral philosophy doesn't mean
>moral judgement isn't a part of their every day lives; this is a question
>again, I think, of your deciding that there is some degree of advancement
>(in morally judging) that begets intrinsic value. I don't buy it.
I am willing to listen to your account of the moral life of dogs. Tell me
how I would recognize seeing a dog exercise moral judgment.
Jim
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