Animal Rights: we need about learn about their emotions

Recently a research explains that the rats have empathy. The research want to find evidence about the animals that scientifics use in their experiments. Specifically, the researchers  found evidence indicate that rats can feel anxiety and stress when they see to other rats in aversive situations.  This research is important because shows the animals no human if can feel compassion by others. ( http://www.somosprimates.com/2011/12/ratas-compasivas/  )

I think is necesary the animal experimentation because it is important for to  be possible many medicine  that save lives humans and the other animals .  To me the problem is ethic and moral. What life is the most important? Maybe we shouldnt change the things in the world and the sick people should die.  This problem should be one of the most discussed for philosophers and today there no solution.

I have a pet, is a dog but i feel bad because it  has not place for run or rest quiet. I could got other dog if i have big house and i have the money for send it to veterinary always that it need.

The other point is the zoo. In the beggining, in Europe the zoos had humans, indigenous, the zoos were for entertainment and the rich collect all rare species .  However, to my mind the zoos should be for education , because the people know very little about nature. The zoos should not have animals that need things that the zoo can not give it, the Buin zoo dont have elephants because they need to live with their great family , if elephant do not stay with their familiy they could got depression.  Finally, i want to work in a Zoo. A psychologist in a Zoo ?!! You could be impressed. But in the zoos also there are people. And when i go the zoo i see very people that dont know how behave in a zoo. I want to help the humans and animal that we can to understand ourself and them.

Care your planet

I think the humans are nature too. We aren`t differente to rest of the planet and for this our life depends of the life of nature. We understand this when we know our relation with other animals and plants. The people learn in the school, in their house with their family and also the culture and society have a important function in envioremental education. However, I confess to havent recycling habits, but in my house my familiy collect cans of beer and soda and they take them where cans are recycled. I don`t reycicle in my house because many people live there, but i try saving water and electricity and i walk so much and ride bycicle and now rollerblading too. When you do sport care your health and enviorement.

I haven´t joined any eco-organisations becaus i am some paranoid and i think Greenpeace just associated with big companies and greenpeace only against with rival companies. And i think the people that support eco-organisation may conform with send money but the most important is change our habits and the education.

In summer vacation, i travel with my brother and cousins to Talca and Chillan, and we camping near river. We used to fishing but now, the river is contamined and fishes go out there . Also the river is destroyed. is very changed compared with the past. The trucks remove and put stones in the river,  it hurts when we swiming and the landscape isnt beautiful. Is very sad, i agree with companies but i thinks if they use the nature they should restore the place. ...if you occupy something you must return as you recived it !!

The music in my life

The music is a gathering with myself. When i play music with any instrument, my thoughts dissapears and i just feel the rythm and melody. In my life the music is very important because is a particular lenguage that all people should know.

I love all music exept that play in partys. I think party-music should be listen only in party. When in my house somebody listen this type music i am grouch and irritable. I like Clasic rock, Pop-rock, Pop, Punk, Metal, Clasical, Blues, Jazz, Celtic, Egyptian and Japanese, also   i listen sometimes hip-hop. However i confess that happy music is not my favorite.

Two years ago i had a metal musica band.  I play electric guitar and we played in  metal  and rock fests. Also, when i was in school i played with some classmates the play Superstar Jesuschrist and also i did tribute to Red Hot Chilli Peppers. You can see good times that i have had with music.

I have a electric guitar, acoustic guitar, also a keyboard of my cousin and a accordion for my grandmother. When I was a child had a drums, but never learned because nobody teached me. Nowadays i want to get a Shakuhachi, a japanese flute that use for meditate. I would get musical instruments of all cultures and all types, strings, wind or percussion.

The music is universal lenguaje, that any cultura can use for comunicate with other culture. Herman Hesse (my favorite writer) wrote that  music is fastest way for two persons form friendship.

When we are responsible?

In Chile, many people can answer that we are responsible when we are 18 years old, and according the Law, 16 and 14 years depending the case. Otherwise in England, the responsability according the law is 10 years! Its seems english people really are very severe. But, Alok Jha published a paper in The Guardian, about how neuroscience can change this conception about early liability, He claims that  parts of the brain responsible for decision-making and impulse control are still developing during a person's teens.

A number of psychologists have already shown that adolescents are not wholly responsible individuals and are inclined to take risks and behave in irresponsible ways, . What neuroscience has shown in the last 10 years is that this is at least associated with the fact that the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence. Then, the question is... Can we demand liability to who don,t yet development his brain? Maybe, this is like if we would demand  to little baby that he walk like a adolescent

Acordding the paper the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making, impulse control and cognitive control, is among the slowest parts of the brain to mature and is not fully developed until around the age of 20. Neuroscience adds to the evidence that a 10 or 12 or 15-year-old does not have a fully adult brain in many important respects.  Also, I learn in my carrer, especifically in my subjects; Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Psychopathology and Development, that drugs cause cognitive development delay and many brains problems. 

But, drugs are not the only reason, research has also shown that there is huge variation between individuals and that the development of the slowest-developing parts of the brain is associated with comparable changes in mental functions such as IQ, suggestibility, impulsivity, memory and decision-making. If the variation is normal, can we think that  exist a only age of responsability?

It is clear that at the age of 10 the brain is developmentally immature, and continues to undergo important changes linked to regulating one's own behaviour," said the report. "There is concern among some professionals in this field that the age of criminal responsibility in the UK is unreasonably low, and the evidence of individual differences suggests that an arbitrary cut-off age may not be justifiable."

The paper finishes with a thought. The royal society says that it is necessary  an international meeting of neuroscientists and lawyers every three years to discuss the latest advances. It is necessary because is so relevant to update the knowledge about the human behavior and they lawyers can write better laws.

Link  to original paper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/13/age-criminal-responsibility-brain-scientists