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To: Wicket

"Are you saying by your post that animals don't feel pain?"

Correct. "Pain" is a subjective word and has no context outside of humans. We only know that other humans feel pain because we are one ourselves and WE feel pain. It is a thing that cannot be measured.That is the only basis we have.

We don't have that basis in animals, so my post 105 applies.


132 posted on 12/22/2005 12:58:45 PM PST by RobRoy
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To: RobRoy

That is ludicrous. Absurd.

*You* automatically cry out in pain if you're slashed; so somehow, that's *just* an "autoMATED" response that has nothing to do w/feelings?

This makes no sense whatsoever. Why cry out? What's the purpose? If the animal feels nothing, there's no point in crying out! For crying out loud....

A cat is most definitely a living being; a car is not. I love both, but I'm well aware it's my CAT that experiences pain, whereas my inANIMate car does not.


134 posted on 12/22/2005 1:08:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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