Nkuhuma Pride

[T_Ferguson]

(02-20-2024, 06:29 PM)NLAL11 Wrote: @Mapokser My argument that lions can't rationalise makes no sense? What?? Animals don't rationalise. That requires sentience.

It's instinct. Male lions run when they can't hold the territory because their instinct tells them that it's better to run and live, and have the chance to sire more offspring. If they stay and die, their offspring will die as well, and they won't pass on their genes. Not because they 'decide it isn't worth it'.

For lionesses, it seems the instinct to defend the cubs/subs is much more powerful, often overriding the instinct to survive. There is no 'sacrifice'. But even then sometimes lionesses give in and submit to the new males, and their cubs get killed. You are in fact anthropomorphising. Because if some lionesses sacrifice themselves and others don't, then that means that some lionesses are morally superior to others. And that, is nonsense.

Do you think these animals aren't sentient? Reply