Comment on Heroic rat retiring from detecting land minesparentComments−CoastalCoder5yNot GP, but for me it's a matter of striving to reason clearly and correctly. I try to avoid slipping into pleasant error on any topic, because I don't want mental habits that let me do that with important topics.−zaybqp5yThe error here is thinking that the rat is in danger when doing its job and that the word heroic cannot be used to describe non-human.From Webster, heroic: of a kind that is likely only to be undertaken to save a life.This rat's work has saved lives. So, we can call it heroic. It is not even anthropomorphic strictly speaking.
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Not GP, but for me it's a matter of striving to reason clearly and correctly. I try to avoid slipping into pleasant error on any topic, because I don't want mental habits that let me do that with important topics.
The error here is thinking that the rat is in danger when doing its job and that the word heroic cannot be used to describe non-human.
From Webster, heroic: of a kind that is likely only to be undertaken to save a life.
This rat's work has saved lives. So, we can call it heroic. It is not even anthropomorphic strictly speaking.