Oh, I have no capacity for compassion. I hate all animals. (Though not equally.)
And I am fairly confident that a goose doesn’t pass onto a gosling anything that requires multiple syllables to express - leaving you with instinct, example, and reward/punishment being pretty much the only tools in the educational toolbox.
(Although the ultimate test is separating them prior to hatching, I suppose.)
Your entire argument rests on “multiple syllables to express”, in language, and in terms of communication, sonic complexity has absolutely nothing to do with information conveyance or processes. In fact, a multisyllabic elaboration may be ineffecient in sonority and bytes expressed.
Let’s put it this way. Do you think if you brought a Chinese Goose together with an American Goose, would they be able to communicate, or even a Farmyard White Goose with a Canda Goose? Would they be able to commuicate in pure sonic terms, unlike a Chinese National and an American National. What language do they speak, if any? Frankly your worldview and religion disallows and disavows anything that is not anthropocentric and totally discounts the possibility by pure perc3ived superiority. Might eat a Goose, why would I want to talk to a goose!!? The miscommucnication of murder.
Think the Chinese Gooose is telling the American Goose, the humans come around, and one of us disappears? The American geese are maybe less suspicious. After all, I hear Goose is really greasy.
Well, The fine art of talking to geese is well developed by Mankind. Not so crazy, huh? Or is it? The people who talk to geese lure them to their own demise. Device of Death. We don’t think to listen to them or talk to them- We eat them and consume them. Can’t beat a Goose Down Comforter and Pillow… heaven!
I don’t think that geese speak in a language at all - I think they have a basic signal set that includes audible noises, but that it’s as much a language as human laughter is. (Which is to say not at all.)
Aaand then you roll over into somewhat incomprehensible nonsense, starting right about when you amusingly, and quite incorrectly, accuse me of having a religion.
It’s a very common belief as a societal set, that one’s language is superior to another set. In human history, very recently, many conquering societal sets have lorded over conquered sets with their prejudiced classification of their society and language, “as primitive language and society” compared to the economic and imperialistic lingua franca. It’s simply not true… no commune is better than another, they are simply specialized.
Abrahamic Law societies especially lord over animals and nature because of their ingrained cultural beliefs, even I am influenced by the despicable Middle eastern Law and belief. One doesn’t need to have a religion to be religous, one can spout religiosity in societal conviction of any variety.
Ask a Goose Hunter if Geese (or Duck, for that matter) speak a language. I think even they would be hard pressed to say no. Unless they were really ignorant and wanted to fool themselves. I mean, after all, they did have to learn Goose to kill them easily.
Dude, the burden of proof is on you to prove that geese have a language more complex and meaning-laden than human nonlinguistic utterances like laughter or screaming. 'Cause frankly I don’t believe it. Not because I’m religiously opposed to it, but because the default belief is not that any squalk uttered by man or beast is language. I’m not saying that I think their language is primitive out of innate superiority; I’m saying that I think they don’t have language at all because all they do is honk.
Until you can prove that geese have language, this is beyond silly.
On preview: Hey goose hunters! Have you discussed any philiosophy with your prey lately?
In some human languages and societies, philosophizing or linguistic exponence will get you killed. The idea of God is enough. and there is nothing else. So I guess it evens out.
Do you speak Goose? Duck!