Monday, January 15, 2018

The Swiss Consider the Lobster. It Feels Pain, They Decide (New York Times)


I don't think that it is anthropomorphizing to attribute to non-human animals the conscious apperceptive awareness of pain, especially when those same non-human animals clearly show preference in not feeling pain, at all. To blame a difference of perception on dissimilar "hardware" is lazy reasoning.

Clearly these animals do not want to experience the sort of pain that comes with being

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