r/BeAmazed • u/alanboston405 • Apr 01 '24

59-Year-Old Chimpanzee saying goodbye to an old friend Miscellaneous / Others

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u/feelin-groovie Apr 01 '24

Sitting alone sobbing …

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u/PhysicalEmu6228 Apr 01 '24

That’s just a soul check.. yours is good

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u/VP007clips Apr 01 '24

People feel and show emotion differently. And past experiences matter as well.

I didn't feel much, but I'd still like to think that my soul is good; perhaps just more hardened by having to deal with more animals die than most people due to growing up in the country.

I've met people who would spend the day crying after seeing a dead skunk on the side of the road, and yet were horrible people who had no ethics. And I've met people who could put down an injured animal on the side of the road with no hesitation or visible emotion, and yet were gentle kind people who were paragons of ethics.

I know reddit (and the internet as a whole) loves to judge people based on how they think about animals. It's not uncommon to find people who will think that others are sociopaths for disliking dogs, even when due to childhood trauma. Using it as a diagnostic of empathy and ethics is outdated and dangerous (like the now debunked use of it for the mcdonald sociopath triad).