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Given that animal grieve and mourn their dead [0], cows have best friends [1], or many species of animals play [2], among many other things, assuming that cavemen lives is only "culinary" and "carnal" pleasure means humans not long ago ("cavemen") had internal lives far, far simpler than what many animal species experience.

That's unfair in the extreme to the intellect of cavemen and women. No doubt they had rich and complex internal lives and were as capable as you or I of enjoying birdsong, beautiful sunsets, and so on.

Yes, pleasure is today more accessible than ever and people sort of get hooked on it.

But the original argument was that if you are in harmony with nature you even dislike the idea of strong pleasure (like sex) and that's just clearly wrong.