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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by aarch0x40@piefed.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you’ve ever seen a bird masturbate, you absolutely know what that bird is doing.

Hilarious statement. So if I have never seen a bird masturbate, I would not know what the bird is doing? Wow.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

As someone who's never seen a bird masturbate, I assumed it would look like preening. This sentence clarified that it would not look similar.

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[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago

That's a fallacy: P -> Q does not imply !P -> !Q

However, it does imply !Q -> !P: if you don't know what a bird is doing, you've never seen a bird masturbate.

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