Intelligence/Emotional Capacity

I have been thinking about this for a couple days now, and yes I understand that there are probably many, many better topics and ways that I could spend my brain power...but this thought has been overtaking my mind. I read a while back that Elephants were capable of dying of broken hearts. Or, like when one of the dogs dies in "Where the Red Fern Grows" after a cougar attack, the other one becomes depressed and dies of a broken heart. Even some birds, such as lovebirds, are said to die because of broken heart syndrome. A few other animals, such as horses, sometimes eat hay and oats constantly until the point of death, as if an intentional suicide.
So this has brought me to think, especially in the case of the elephant, if this capability is a sign of higher intelligence. With elephants, most of us have probably heard that elephants never forget (whatever that is supposed to mean). So, does this gift that they have with advanced memory skills and being able to feel to the point of dying of a broken heart constitute a higher intelligence in these creatures, or does it just mean that they have a higher emotional capacity? Do they go hand in hand? Is "love" an actual thing that can be felt in humans, as well as animals? Or is it a natural hormonal effect of attraction that we are supposed to feel for certain others to ensure that our genes get passed down and our species subside?
To me, at least when I try to think about it, I feel that the emotional capacity may have to go hand in hand, or trunk in trunk, with the amount of intelligence. Especially if the elephant truly never forgets, then maybe after its partner passes away, it gets to remembering their first date together, the first time they went swimming together, or that one time where one of them sunk into a tar pit, only to be saved in time by the other, therefore bringing their relationship to the next level.
If these animals, like most humans, are not able to simply move on and continue in the "circle of life" worrying only about survival, but actually having felt something instead, enough to drive them to the point of physical drain, I believe that it shows that, along with a bigger capacity to feel emotion, they have a stronger intelligence.
Or, heck, maybe "feeling" at all is only a drag and just plain stupidity.
But I'm not doctor.

A Point In Time

There is said to be a point in time, though I do not know if I believe it to have actually happened, where people used to take accountability for their actions and would be subject to punishment. Though I know that, during my lifetime, I have never had the experience to live in such a world, I have heard about people who have. And it honestly blows my mind to even think about it. Was there truly a time when people took responsibilities for their actions? When lies were wrong? And when the truth was not overrated?
Through the court systems, and through the expanded amounts of technologies, and hence, new ways to do something wrong or illegal, there have been many new responses to people's own actions. It is always someone elses fault. That's the world that I have been raised in, and that's the way that my peers and myself have been attempted to be brainwashed. And on many, the world has been successful in making this new generation believe it.
A long time ago someone could make you a sincere promise just by giving their word or a handshake, even if they were your enemy, and you had no doubt in your mind that they would fulfill it, while the thought never once crossed their mind to go against their word. There used to be a big difference in the world then and today. And that is honor. A name used to mean something. What people thought of you and your family, the respect that you earned, used to be everything.
Now, everything has changed. If you go against your word, there is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with 'crossing your fingers' as long as you are able to come out ahead in the end.
What I envy is the day when good was good and bad was bad. There was no excused, justification, or mistrial. Now, we live in a day where people get fat and then sue McDonalds for making them that way, because obviously in was no fault of their own. Or a person breaks into someone's house to rob the place, only to sprain their ankle, so they sue the owner of the house. Or, my favorite, a crook robs someone of their Marijuana and their money, only to be soon after robbed himself, so he calls the police to help him retrieve his stolen goods that he had just stolen.
What kind of world is this?
There used to be a time where it was very wrong to call people certain names, or make fun of them for certain aspects, views, beliefs, or physical traits. Now, it's ok because "God hates those people". I believe that the times have changed. But not God. Stop using that excuse.
Through the ages we have seen the Law of Moses, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth". Then, when the people were ready, Christ gave a new law that stated to "love one another". Yes, to even love your enemies. But now I believe that we have progressed the wrong way. We have turned it into our own law of "hate your enemy, because God obviously hates them too".
I envy the people who lived in the time when good was good and bad was bad. The extent of all our excuses and justifications for our own inadequacies and flaws has gone too far.
We are the sickness. We are the disease. And trying to convince ourselves that every justification and excuse that we can come up for a poor or irresponsible action is only spreading it around in this already sick world.
Good is good, and bad is bad. It has been, and always will be that way. I envy those people who were able to live in such a world where the people at least tried to honor that.