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Yes, I still have a little food for thought, which ame to my mind

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with this topic, and I viewed some youtube

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videos and one of these videos I have seen

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was the philosopher Daniel Danett, who told

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that neurobilogists expressed the theory that

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there is no free will in humans. So it happened

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that we made progress in brain research and

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I do not want to enter the details now.

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Anyway, by new techniques of neuro-imaging

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many things today can be seen.

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How new connections in the brain are built

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and so on, and from all these new findings they

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they tried to find

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the free will and did not

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find it, and by this they concluded:

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Free will does not exist, it is

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an illusion. Then the philosopher claimed

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thet from his point of view this is false.

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I myself see it the same way,

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there is something like free will and

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if we can not prove it with our means of investigation

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this does not mean that it does not exist.

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This only means that our means of investigation are

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not sufficient to find it,

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but the conclusion I consider to be false

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What do I want to say? The question is:

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you can define by the free will whether

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humans really have character,

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that they are persons and so on and

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similar I want to do this for animals.

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The question, whether an animal is a person

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or has a character. I do not want to

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lump this together. With this you can also

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answer, whether an animal has a free

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will or not.

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Following new results of the neurobiologists,

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neither animal nor man has

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a free will and this classification is

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futile following

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these findings.

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Somewhen I chatted with a pal

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abot the topic: Which person is most close

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to you?

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And I said: My rat.

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Then he said: I would not see

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the rat as a person.

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Then I began to think whether

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some humans see animals as

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persons and some don't.

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What is the reason for this difference?

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Do we need this distinction, and why?

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Last christmas, this is now

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about a month ago, I came a little closer to

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the solution. My grandma told that she

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has problems with mice in the

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barn , because they built a net

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somewhere during the winter, so she

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put toxic bait there to master this

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problem.

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And for me, who is living

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with rats this sonded like:

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You could say, in the barn a homeless

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has moved in

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to shelter from the cold,

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and of course

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I had to poison him.

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When I tell this I see someone

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is already laughing.

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Told this way it

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sounds very cruel. Without further thinking

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making cold who is only looking

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for a little warmth.

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On the other hand: If it is about

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an animal, it is somehow normal.

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Especially an animal you are

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used to poison like mice.

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That's the way it is.

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The I realized:

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If I have two behaviours

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which are identical, where only the

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victim is different, suddenly one behaviour is

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cruel, and the other behaviour is more

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or less normal.

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There is a contradiction in this.

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My grandma is a lovely person

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and I would not say she defines herself

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by the cruelness she

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causes these animals.

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For her this is simply

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something that has to be done.

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Apart of this, she is one

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of the nicest persons ever.

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Then it came to my mind:

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Could it be that we have to

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make the distinction that animals are

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something different than we are,

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or no persons, or of less value, so that

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we can mask our own cruelness?

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If we say we are cruel to some

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and very kind to others, this does not

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sound consistent.

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But when we say one is of another

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category than the other, and are

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applying double standards, then we

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can integrate

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our behaviours.

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It might be that someone does

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something cruel on the one hand and

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is a nice person

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on the other hand.

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The more I thought about it,

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the more I ralized

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that this scheme is to

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be found

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all over the world.

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For example in economy.

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We live in an economical

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very good land, but on

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the costs of countries in the third world.

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But we do not realize

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this, we fade out that we

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inflict atrocities

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for our

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good life.

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We have the mechanism of suppression

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which enables

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for us a good life.

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The mechanism makes us

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miss the

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consquences of our actions.

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Then the question came to me:

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Might it be that we classify

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many animals as of low value

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to appease our consciousnesses,

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not to be force to live with the

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cruelness we

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do to the world.

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With this thought

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I want to close

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Thank you

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Dr. Buschmann out of the off: This is

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called cognitive dissonance, a

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known phenomenon in man.

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For example there are simultaneoulsy

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animals as source of food in factory

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farms and on the

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other hand a

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pet dog, which is no

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match. A divergence of

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reasonings which

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are not comaptible, simply

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to appease the consciousness to be able

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to better live with this.

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The same scheme you can find in speciism,

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racism, group building, in economical

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and cultural differences. This is very widespread.

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Thank you for the expert's addition.

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For me it was the moment

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I realized this contrast.

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Thank you