my philosophy teacher called me a dumbass today XD

Nah. Animals don't have languages or emotions. We just like to project human aspects onto them. Trust me, your dog doesn't smile. :l

i was making a joke and actually animals do have emotions

No they have survival instincts. People project emotions onto them to feel better about enslaving them. :l

animals can feel fear, happiness,sadness they are not some lifeless puppets

No those are projected HUMAN emotions. Animals have survival instinct and that's it.

Fear is the flight or fight response to danger. That's instinct.

Animals aren't ever happy. They can be full(food), but they don't experience the emotion humans have called happy. We like to thin our dogs are smiling at us but in reality, they don't sweat. It's called panting in dogs and gaping(no pun intended) in others.

And as for sadness, if you mean mourning their dead, again this is because of survival instinct.They don't comprehend the finality of death. The dog that dragged the dead dog off the highway and waited by it's dead body for example. It has an instinct that tells it there is greater safety in numbers and it doesn't realize that the other dog is dead. It only helps it to help itself or the pack. And Hachi(akita) waited for its owner because that was its "pack" not because it mourned him/her.

Animals don't have the same kind of brains we have. They also don't have souls.

Don't get me wrong, I still talk to my dogs and treat them kindly, but I know that if someone else took them home and gave them food, they wouldn't miss me one bit.

People just love to project onto animals because it makes the interactions with them more comfortable. That's a fact of life. :l

im gonna try something here since i have a very difficult time explaining myself im gonna try this in steps ok first of all what is a soul explain

So ignore all the facts but the one you think you can debunk? What are you a liberal?

You have a difficult time explaining yourself because you believe foolish things like animals having emotions and can't recognize/admit that you're projecting onto the animal. :l

no actually i have light dyslexia but ty vm <3 and no im just trying to take this step by step so we can both think hard about what we wrote amigo

If you play the victim like that you'll get walked on, so just express yourself. Tell me your side and I'll read your post and consider what you say.

But on this animals not having emotions, it's the truth. People just really want their animals to love them and can't accept how "cold" they are. :l

ight, humans are very lonsome creatures that is why we can literally give emotions or sentimental value to anything even a pen. secondly all lower animals such as dog cats dolphins pretty much any animal that has a decent level of inteligence can show forms or emotions yes we can sometimes portray emotions onto them that are more complex but they still can achive simpler emotions such as i said before happiness, sadness, anger, fear these are all basic emotions that are given to the all of us but we are capable of going a step ahead of them because of the fact that we are conscious so we will have very deep emotions of love and we feel very compasionate about the people that we love for example friends, family ,lovers in other words a pack just like wolves sry about it not being that clear but i hope my point gets across to you i belive in many things you say accept animals do have feeling

Next time you should structure the post into sentences and paragraphs. It makes it easier to read.

As for your view on this, you're still projecting human conditions onto animals.

We like to think dolphins, pigs, parrots, and apes are intelligent, but we're secretly already thinking that before going into experiments with them and projecting human conditions onto them. It's similar to demand characteristics.

Basically for any study on animals having emotion or intelligence, we go into the research with the hope of finding that animals have intelligence or emotion and because of our bias we affect the outcome. It's also like editing a graph to only show the results you want to show.

It's sad to think about for us, as humans, that animals are just "in it to win it" with their instincts of survival and don't reciprocate emotion and that's why it's so easy to project a false pretense onto them. Your pets only want food, shelter, and a mate. That's it. Dogs, for example, don't actually miss/mourn their owners absence, they're hungry, trying to survive, and know you have food. :l

ok i know when im beat but i still strongly believe that animals have some form of emotions next time im gonna come at ya with a whole new level of info and this time my sentences are actually going to be structured