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The Love Between Homeless People and their Animal Companions

The deep emotional and psychological connection between human animals and other animals can be profound. Many people have a deep emotional valuation of nonhuman animals they connect with, and even see their animal companions as the most important others in their lives, more than other human-to-human relations they have. The nonhuman animals are their life, and often the animals share […]

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Nonhumans Can Judge Human Cooperation and Reciprocity

Most of us have a common sense to prefer to deal with others who demonstrate that they are fair, reasonable and can possibly be helpful as a result. Those who demonstrate unfairness and irrationality tend to be people that will not help us find solutions because they are incapable of doing so. People who display harmful intentions, outright harmful actions, […]

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Pets Can Provide More Companionship to Children than Siblings

There is a growing body of research that indicates a broad network of relationships is better for children, rather than a sole focus on parent-child interactions. Pets — our fellow animal companions — are included in that network of relationships. Since other interactions are important, what about interactions with the nonhuman animal companion that is a member of the family? […]

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Disabled Rooster Helps At-Risk Children

A rooster in a wheelchair? Yes, that’s right. Louise is no ordinary bird. The rooster was misnamed due to being falsely identified as a hen. sourceWhy does that matter? Because most baby roosters have no use in an industry that exploits chickens for their eggs in order to make money. Louise’s life would have been extinguished as a result, but […]

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How Much Do You Care? Kind, Kin, Genus and Care (v2)

What do you care about? Do you primarily care about your personal life, having fun, enjoying yourself, being happy? Do you care about more than just personal enjoyment? Do you understand higher order concepts and ideas to care about that will improve your life and the life of others? Do you care for morality? Do you have greater or lesser […]

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Humans and the Animal Kingdom – An Emotional Kinship

Animals are all part of the animal kingdom. That’s why it’s called the animal kingdom. We are kin (etymology). There is much in common, despite the differences. Just as there are differences in human races and individuals, there are many commonalities as well. I’m going to provide some information about characteristics and components that animals share in common, relating to […]

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Perpetuating Wrong Through Feel-Good Attachment and Fear

People are convinced that perpetuating their own self-enslavement by voting masters to run aspects of their life, is a “good”, “moral” and “responsible” action. Trying to negate this reality with direct truth often creates the backfire effect where people reject the deeply contrasting and contradictory truth in favor of their attached falsities. They think they are good, especially doing action […]

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Living, Experience, Action, Choice, Emotion

We, humans, create words to reflect reality. The naked eye for discerning reality can clearly see there is a fundamental difference between plant life and animal life, at the very least. Here are some discernible classes of living things we have come to understand with the help of technological instruments. Can this reality of differences in life forms be seen […]

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