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Theodore Nott (nottfinished) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-08-30 15:27:00

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Intelligent rats sound good, until you remember that their intelligence means they can understand things like family and children, that they can feel love and grief and that they have the wits to know how to use their fabric bedding to hang themselves.

~~If I'd kept a better eye on them this wouldn't have happened~~

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	weasley_now 2014-08-30 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	You had a rat hang itself? That is both intriguing that they would reach that level of intelligence while disturbing that we are creating and breeding creatures that have those abilities. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nottfinished 2014-08-30 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	Two of them, though I think the male copied the female; she was always the smarter of the two. I guess quitting is only in the grasp of the intelligent? So-called dumb animals have more courage than that? I don't know. Maybe it's just that they had a concept of the future and couldn't face meeting it. ~~Maybe that's what makes them intelligent~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	weasley_now 2014-08-30 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	I'm curious. How did they work out the logistics of it all? Also, why would their concept of a future be one that they wouldn't contemplate? Though animals tend to take their cues from the people they interact with the most. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nottfinished 2014-08-31 12:05 am UTC (link)
	They have these hammocks. I don't know. They had babies a while ago, none of them made it. ~~I know it's my fault but~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	weasley_now 2014-08-31 02:20 am UTC (link)
	That's a shame. If you knew you could prevent it from occurring again in the future. According to what I've read on mice she could have had another litter soon. Unless he killed the babies himself. Regardless, how did they begin to reach a more cognitive state? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nottfinished
2014-08-31 02:09 pm UTC (link)

I know. ~~I should have known~~

No, they were a good couple. Just young, maybe, the babies were weak. ~~I didn't watch them, I didn't look after them properly~~ I didn't watch them well enough and they just slipped away. Both the parents were distraught.

I'm not sure. I suppose it makes sense, we bred intelligence into them, I suppose they're evolving from there. I don't know.

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	weasley_now 2014-08-31 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Then we should leave them to their own devices. Breeding intelligence into creatures who are not ready to handle it is cruel. Not that you did the breeding yourself. Still, now that the outcomes are measurable changes should be made to present this from happening again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nottfinished 2014-08-31 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	Who is ready to handle intelligence? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	weasley_now 2014-09-01 04:01 am UTC (link)
	I think intelligence is relative to the species and we ought no place our own views into those that already exist. It isn't natural. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nottfinished 2014-09-01 09:04 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure how long intelligent rats have been around for. I don't know if this was an abberation or the norm when they face those kind of circumstances. Maybe this was inevitable, once they started getting smarter. Either way, I don't think it's something that can be stopped anymore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	weasley_now 2014-09-01 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	Then it is something we can only hope they become accustom to. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pans_parkinson_ 2014-08-31 01:48 am UTC (link)
	Granger, if you start to go on about freedom for rats, I'm going to hex you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	weasley_now 2014-08-31 02:21 am UTC (link)
	If they've reach viable cognition why should they not? (Reply to this) (Parent)

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