In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Other species help children develop empathy.
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
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