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if you want to just live in your feelings about this instead of relying on the science, I can’t stop you. but anyone else who reads this should understand that what you claimed simply isn’t scientific fact.

this isn’t proof of understanding personal mortality

we have something we haven’t been able to prove exists in any other animal: knowledge that we, ourselves, might die. animal cognitive behaviorists call this understanding personal mortality, and every time they get close to it, I’ve seen them go out of their way to say they don’t have proof any other animal understands personal mortality.

if you have an animal cognitive behavioral study that claims otherwise, I’d be happy to read it.

say what you want to say. I don’t care for your interrogation.

sure: people are different and unpredictable.

this isn’t proof of causation. it’s pure post hoc ergo propter hoc

“Vegetables don’t care if they die, but animals do. Animals don’t like dying.”

there simply isn’t proof for claims like this