HoneyBears -> RE: be who you are,love who you love !! (6/29/2016 4:50:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick quote:
Love, on the other hand, and our capacity to love and receive love in return, is what defines our humanness. Would you not agree? No, I do not agree. There being many manifestations of love, having empathy and showing compassion are expressions of altruistic love, common to humanitarianism. If you prefer, feel free to substitute the word humanism or humanity, for humanness. [:)] Comparisons of brain development, the cerebral cortex, and frontal lobes between humans and dolphins, for example, do not make the case for higher intelligence as the distinguishing factor. (Then there are those who are too ignorant to believe that animals are capable of feeling emotions, much less love, as if being instinct-driven cancels those faculties out.) -- Lisa & Cub
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