It is entirely reasonable to expect human conduct of human beings, and not of irrational animals.
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It would absurd to expect irrational animals, e.g. to obey the law, or to prosecute them for crimes.
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Point isn't that humans have bigger brains but that we have a distaste for what we see as bestial.
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to the extent that we seek privacy for sex & defecation & mean other animals when we say 'animals.'
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And talk of overcoming our carnal desires in all sorts of contexts. And have ideas of pure spiritual parts.
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We have a distaste for biological needs & feel shame. We relate failures to do this to 'behaving like animals.'
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This is what I mean by an instinct to deny that we are mammals - to suppress & shame the 'animalistic' bits.
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Theres no objective reason for sex/defecation in private or for seeing virtue in forms of 'mortifying the flesh'
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Some bad things do result from this denial of our biological nature - blank slate ideas, denial of evolution etc
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And more subtle ones - being neurotic abt sex, feeling too embarrassed to see dr with illness in private zones.
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And reinforcing natural dualism in terms of transcendence narratives - part of ourselves is non-animal - eternal
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