Comments on: Why can’t a person be more like a dog? http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Sun, 19 May 2013 13:46:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5073 Ymarsakar Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:28:20 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5073 I think Bookworm is thinking about a “switch” that can turn free will on and off, Earl ; ) Best of both worlds!

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5072 Danny Lemieux Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:21:03 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5072 Dogs are cheaper and a lot easier to please, as well. Mine even eats broccoli.

]]> By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5066 Earl Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:16:00 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5066 Believe me, it would get extremely irritating in fairly short order — God made us with free will for a reason. A robot isn’t an interesting companion, and a child who existed only to please you would be a lot worse!

]]> By: Zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5069 Zhombre Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:16:09 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5069 “Supreme sentient lifeform.” I like that. I may start using that on my resume.

]]> By: Laer http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5070 Laer Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:11:56 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5070 Being all caught up in tees and a pre-teen, and being to owner of two adorable King Charles Cavaliers, I couldn’t agree more. Still, I’m very happy that my daughters don’t roll over on their backs and ask me to scratch their bellies!

]]> By: Michael Devereaux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5071 Michael Devereaux Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:27:01 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5071 Madam Bookworm,

I know you’re being tongue in cheek but I will answer anyway!

If you were to die or leave, your dog would find another master and seek to please him or her in every way. It’s the nature of the dog. (The one-man-dog that never seeks a new master is a rare dog indeed).

Now I KNOW you don’t want your kids living their entire lives seeking a master that they can submit to and please in every way!

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5067 Ymarsakar Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:42:02 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5067 Because evolution gave us the title of “supreme sentient lifeform”,. that’s why. We are cursed and blessed with perpetual neo-teny, an eternal child like state in which everything is new and to be learned for the first time or just over again.

Dogs learn one thing and they follow it to the exclusion of any distractions. Their instincts drive their behavior, their instincts demand they behave in a certain way in a certain environment of stimuli. For humans, we are unbound by the chains of racial or instinctual behavioral triggers. We are also unbound by the benefits as well. A person has to learn how to fight, he cannot just act instinctually based upon a non-existent fight template he was born with.

It’s a choice of benefits and detriments, Book. Obedience as a dog, but with its limitations. or the unlimited potential of humans, but with all the behavioral and learning problems.

]]> By: judyrose http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/21/why-cant-a-person-be-more-like-a-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-5068 judyrose Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:20:46 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=826#comment-5068 You’re the Henry Higgins for pets. Now you just have to set it to music.

]]>