[anonytrary]

Would you be? Depends on:

  1. Were you born in the fish bowl, or did someone place you in it after you grew up?

  2. If the former, were you ever given a chance to leave the fishbowl and experience different life?

My hypothesis is that living things can't be depressed about stuff they are unaware of, since depression is a relative state rather than an absolute state.

[fortran77]

And this is why we see happy PHP programmers--they've never seen anything else.

[victorevector]

>My hypothesis is that living things can't be depressed about stuff they are unaware of, since depression is a relative state rather than an absolute state.

It's an interesting idea, but then I think about dispositions. I would argue that animals are born with the awareness of which you speak. I call this awareness: instincts. Does a fishbowl accommodate a fish's natural born instincts?