Anthropomorphizing. (edit: You got to look up animal cannibalism and incest too).
Is that 3rd one supposed to be Cesar from Planet of the Apes?
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Pdub (Old Spike)
You can tell they are making fun of poor people and comparing them to chimps. Do you see rich people handing out caviar to bums? Why would the chimp pass the grape or refuse it? When resources are scarce, it's survival of the fittest.
"We work on these particular issues to see if WE can CREATE a morality from the BOTTOM up, so to speak without necessarily god and religion involved, and to see how we can get to an evolved morality."
Elitist talking shit in an sneaky way and getting applause for it. Saying "bottom" people have low or no morality without god. Just using animals in the video, but they do it to people, too.
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Bobbob (Site Administrator)
It's possible with the capuchin monkeys, the behaviour of refusing the grape until the co-participant also gets a grape is fear-based. eg. depending on hierarchical status in their monkey group (if they're kept in a shared enclosure when not running experiments) the grape-fed monkey could draw reprisal. Controlling for this would make for an interesting follow-up experiment. But certainly not enough to indicate morality.
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(Site Administrator)
Anthropomorphizing. (edit: You got to look up animal cannibalism and incest too).
Is that 3rd one supposed to be Cesar from Planet of the Apes?
(Old Spike)
You can tell they are making fun of poor people and comparing them to chimps. Do you see rich people handing out caviar to bums? Why would the chimp pass the grape or refuse it? When resources are scarce, it's survival of the fittest.
"We work on these particular issues to see if WE can CREATE a morality from the BOTTOM up, so to speak without necessarily god and religion involved, and to see how we can get to an evolved morality."
Elitist talking shit in an sneaky way and getting applause for it. Saying "bottom" people have low or no morality without god. Just using animals in the video, but they do it to people, too.
(Site Administrator)
It's possible with the capuchin monkeys, the behaviour of refusing the grape until the co-participant also gets a grape is fear-based. eg. depending on hierarchical status in their monkey group (if they're kept in a shared enclosure when not running experiments) the grape-fed monkey could draw reprisal. Controlling for this would make for an interesting follow-up experiment. But certainly not enough to indicate morality.
(Short Spike)
Natural law.
Look it up. Or dont.