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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Why? And what do you mean by feel pain anyway?
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I think a decent way to describe pain would be to define it as a negative physical sensation. If a creature is in physical pain then it's repsonses are altered.
You could argue that animals do not feel pain and their actions are just an automated response but I have seen no evidence for that and I'm not sure you could prove that anyway. Would that be the same for a mouse as it is for an ape?
If you agree that humans should be spared physical pain when possible and that humans are not intrinsically different from other animals then I do not see why the same rule should not be applied to animals.