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"Here, hooman, stop crying already!" (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Your cat played to much fallout 🤣

[+] [email protected] -11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s extremely interesting to me that cats, despite having no way of knowing sadness in another being (they anatomically can not have empathy), they know that this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. They do know happiness in others, so in order to make the "not good thing" go away, they do things you usually like (cuddles) and things that they like (bottle caps). They show empathy through intelligence.

Edit: source

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7401521/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

(they anatomically can not have empathy)

You got a source on that? Not to be rude, but it sounds like the nonsense that meat eaters in denial tell each other like "fish can't feel pain", even though when you poke a fish, it obviously reacts to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

While I agree with your argument about the source, I'll nitpick your example.

external stimulus does not mean something feels something. just because you flipped your light switch doesn't mean your lightbulb gets angry and glows. same for living organisms.

IMO a better example is how fish can be aggressive to other fish, and this can cause psychological reactions that can be observed; scale loss, lethargy, starvation, increased aggression, death. IMO if an organism can exhibit observable psychological responses, it has the capacity to feel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Personally, I like it as an example here, because yes, technically you can't know for sure that a fish feels pain, much like you can't know for sure that a cat feels empathy, but it's illogical to assume that if we don't know about it that it doesn't have it. The base assumption should be that these animals are similar to us, because they're really not that different from us.
In particular, pain and empathy are crucial to survival for us. It would be extraordinary, if fish and cats survived without any notion of it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Emotions is a universal language

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago

lady stop crying, we have four bottle caps, we're basically fucking rich

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

el bottle capitán

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

I had a friend when I was younger who had this giant orange cat. I’ve never seen one that big anywhere else in my life.

It would sit at your feet and when you opened a bottle you had to toss the lid to the cat. There were hundreds of lids behind her couch.

That cat fucking loved lids.

I just seen my old friend today actually. First time in years, so it’s funny to see this post.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We don’t deserve cats.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

How else will the cats keep us as pets though

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

They know.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

What a good girl!

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cats are a bit like very good friends: doing their best to annoy you when they can, but also doing their best to help you when you need it the most.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The ultimate sibling

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

This makes me happy so it must make you happy human.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

She doesn't want to set the world on fire

She just wants to start a flame in your heart

[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

She's actually flaunting her riches to make you feel worse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, caps, like in fallout

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

That's a beautiful friendship right there.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this Khajiit is in the wrong Bethesda franchise

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Khajiit has coin from selling wares. Khajiit also not heartless, and wants to help hooman.

Hooman with good health has coin for khajiit wares

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You beat me to it.

"Khajiit has wares."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

What sweetie.