{"id":2157,"date":"2009-06-12T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2009-06-12T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:03:04","slug":"thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbors-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbors-banana\/","title":{"rendered":"Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor&#8217;s Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/02\/science\/02tier.html?_r=1\">documents <\/a>further blows to human exceptionalism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>moping coyotes, rueful monkeys, tigers that cover their eyes in remorse, chimpanzees that second-guess their choices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose that such signs of proto-moral reactions in animals are neutral regarding our alleged origins in a sovereign god: God could have been trying out variants of a moral sense before conferring it on his masterpiece.\u00a0 They are also neutral regarding the alleged need for religion to at least shore up our moral sense, if not bestow it altogether (as I\u2019ve written before, however, I would like to think that the admirable and salutary institution of the sermon and other affirmations of a common morality could be replicated without reference to an imaginary deity).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, I am inclined to see these fascinating findings as not really helping out the cause of a deocentric worldview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney documents further blows to human exceptionalism: moping coyotes, rueful monkeys, tigers that cover their eyes in remorse, chimpanzees that second-guess their choices. I suppose that such signs of proto-moral reactions in animals are neutral regarding our alleged origins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbors-banana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}