Blog Assignment 4

Oliver Sacks sort of suggests that Temple has made a connection with him. “I hugged her-and I think she hugged me back” (Sacks 18). When she was asked “have you ever cared for somebody else, and she answered I think lots of times there are things that are missing from my life” (Sacks 15). This alone shows that she has a really hard time connecting with people during her life. Temple Grandin is an explicit example of not needing emotions to make moral judgments. Oliver Sacks writes, “Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong” (Sacks 18). She has no sense of her emotions yet she has made more morally right decisions than people with emotions make. She wants to respect the cattle in their last few minutes of being alive and honor them by making them calm on their way to their death. She makes better connections with animals because she can understand them. Its not complex for her to understand. Its simple. “She can understand simple, strong, universal emotions but was stumped by more complex emotions” (Sacks 6).