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I notice characteristics in persons that I do not notice in insects, fish, birds, and non-human animals:
Self-awareness (awareness of awareness)
Ability to make moral decisions
Ability to love (to desire to do good to others)
Ability to communicate thoughts, ideas, and ideals to other persons
Craving and ability to know God
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You sound like an optimist!
I noticed some other qualities that I don't see in non-human animals...
- Self-pity (a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties)
- Ability to make immoral decisions
- Ability to hate (to desire to do bad to others)
- Ability to manipulate and exploit others through thoughts, ideas, and ideals
- Ability to consider and reject the notion of a "higher being"
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A person can exist, as can a non-person, but only a person actually persists. In other words, when a person dies, the person does not necessarily die. In even further words, humans, as personal being, can go to heaven, but our four-legged furry buddies, non-persons, cannot.
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How do you know that a person, or personal
being, can persist and go to heaven? And why "can" (as opposed to "does")?