--- John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> You're anthropomorphizing. Because the cat doesn't
> behave as a human
> might you take that as evidence of lack of empathy?
> If diners at a restaurant see a member of the wait
> staff fall, don't
> offer to help, and don't feel bad but continue
> eating is that evidence
> humans can't experience empathy?
>
> John Thornton
I know. To qualify as having empathy, all the cat is to do is have awareness that the big two-legged thing that dropped something on its foot is in pain. It doesn't have to give a damn.
A dog very well might, though.
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