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Morality Animal Souls
Chockra: Most amazing things: Paul Price’s German Shepherd, Chockra, on our trip to Canada in the summer of ’72, having never seen a cow before, lining them up, nose to nose, a whole herd to clear a path for Paul and I to pass “unbothered” through the field. Never a bark, never a nip, only a trot and a walk as Chockra marched them 4x4’s, 2x2’s, and finally, for the two stragglers, 1x1’s. The cattle didn’t mind at all and just mozied over to where Chockra put them. Morality: ISTMRN that “civc” morality has replaced “religious” morality in much of human discourse. Civic trumps religious (1st amendment); “people” trump the priest; the King trumps the Pope. But “morality” from my point of view, even civic, secular morality, is still just a “different take” on good versus evil. Though it's difficult to get people to talk about their “take” on morality. But, it seems to me such “civic”, “clear and self-evident” morality is expressed in our shibboleths:
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