Reply #88: Some Examples Please?

[jprd]

Perhaps you could provide some examples of such animal behavior? Sure, dogs protect their masters, but that's partly do to breeding and partly do to protecting the person who provides their room and board. I've never heard of a case, for instance, where polar bears fought with other polar bears for the purpose of protecting black bears. I've never heard of a case where a dominant male animal deferred to a weaker male of his species out of respect for the personal rights of the weaker one. Maybe you know of such cases, and if so, I'd love to hear about them. You may not need to have "religious principles" to do such things, but you need to have SOME principles of "right" and "wrong"!