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welcome to hell:

No one can say whether giraffes and lions experience moral qualms in the same way people do because no one has been inside a giraffe's head, but it is known that animals can sacrifice their own interests:

One experiment found that if each time a rat is given food, its neighbor receives an electric shock, the first rat will eventually forgo eating.

What the new research is showing is that morality has biological roots -- such as the reward center in the brain that lit up in Grafman's experiment -- that have been around for a very long time.

Vedantam/Washington Post 28.May.07
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"One experiment found". There's these things, called experiments? They just go around in the world, finding things? And then they tell us what they find so we can get smarter and do stuff with it. So the experiment did that to the rat and then told us that the rat stopped eating, eventually. So now we know that.
Thanks, experiment!
It's not like there were people doing that to the rat. Because then they'd be sort of less moral wouldn't they? Because not only would it be that they didn't stop eating they'd be the ones who kept doing it.
Because you can't even see that is why this is hell.