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Duh. This feels like a topic that the scientific community has a bizarre and self serving view of. There’s no reason to think insects don’t feel pain, which is a basic evolutionary mechanism. So why the need to scrutinize the topic? Because of the need to defend a long line of justifications made throughout the decades as to why humans should be able to treat other beings poorly and still consider ourselves “moral”.


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