Animals don't feel guilt over their actions. Nor do they conceive of god.
2007-03-12 23:57:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are not hard-wired for guilt. The feeling of guilt comes with learning the difference between right and wrong and accepting ridicule for wrong doing. It is a scientific fact that there are many people who feel no remorse over their actions. This comes either from upbringing or a conscious effort to 'hardwire' the conscience into accepting a guiltless lifestyle. Animals have no sense of guilt or of God because they have no self-awareness. By self-awareness I mean that they have no sense of their mortality. Their sense of fear and security is instinctive, not intellectual or spiritual.
2007-03-13 00:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt is the realisation that you have hindered yourself by your own actions... and thus that said actions were ill-advised and shouldn't have been undertaken.
Many animals do feel that kind of guilt, and in the purist form. Humans just mistake it for something different.
"God" has nothing to do with this at all. It is just another human fabrication.
2007-03-13 00:03:32 · answer #2 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not 'hard wired for guilt', it is drummed into us from an early age. It is there to make us compliant to any authority.
It is the same as unquestioning faith. If you are told from an early age that you must not question certain things - makes you so vulnerable to manipulation.
2007-03-13 00:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think animals do concieve of God .. and although a relationship with God can take away guilt its not a requirment ... theres plenty of evil people that feel no remorse .. theres more to it than that ...
2007-03-13 00:04:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-03-12 23:59:44 · answer #5 · answered by booge 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋