Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Sand wrote:
What the hell do you know about how plants feel? A nervous system is not he only way living things react to stimuli.
A nervous system is essentially necessary for the feeling that people have called pain or any other feeling associated with suffering. So, living things without nervous systems can be assumed to feel no pain and not to suffer at all. Creatures with nervous systems though, and ones that have reactions in a manner similar to our own reactions to hurtful stimulus could easily be considered to suffer though.
But that's assuming that there's only one way to feel pain/indications of damage/danger.
The damage is more significant than merely just the sensation of pain.
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