Have you heard of a DICTIONARY? What does 'dictionary' even mean, to you?
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:15 pm
The 'freedom' to have as short and stressful a life as possible, crammed with grief and misery?
Did you mean 'without' instead of 'with'?
Either way the word 'freedom' has NO relation AT ALL to 'that'.
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:15 pm
The last time I visited a zoo I saw contented, happy beings who had their every need catered to. A well run and empathetic zoo would be like heaven to our fellow animals.
What 'you', human beings, "see" is NOT ALWAYS what thee ACTUAL Truth of 'things' IS, and this is MORE SO for 'you', older human beings.
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:15 pm
Why would a happy gorilla that has been raised with humans want to be 'returned to the wild' any more than your average human would want to be dumped into the middle of a jungle?
A new born, of ANY animal species, just ACCEPTS its environment.
When I was a younger child I would have MUCH PREFERRED to have been so-called "dumped" in the jungle than be where I was.
But, absolutely EVERY thing is relative to the observer. And, what the observer "sees" (and/or does NOT 'see') depends SOLELY on past experiences.
So, OF COURSE, it might be true that a so-called and alleged "happy" gorilla might not want to be "dumped" in the jungle AFTER being raised by some who LOVED it, this gorilla could have been just as so-called "happy" if it was LEFT in the jungle with its OWN RELATIONS, from birth.
In other words, the variables are just to many and varied to be able to arrive at ANY conclusive answer.
Oh, and by the way, 'freedom' can mean or refer to 'being FREE', as in being absolutely FREE to do absolutely ANY thing one CHOOSES to do.
'Free will' after all could mean or refer to just having 'the ABILITY to CHOOSE'.
So, 'freedom' could be very closely related to 'free will'.