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Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by sinsterizme on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:11AM (#27570787)
I find it a bit strange that you seem to be assigning moral equivalence to animals, plants, viruses and bacteria. Animals should be of top priority because they are the most likely to feel the highest amount of pain by our actions, and we can feasibly take measures to prevent it
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Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by justinclift on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:32PM (#27572691)
> they are the most likely to feel the highest amount of pain

Is that just guesswork?

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Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by sinsterizme on Sunday June 20, 2021 @03:36PM (#27573214)
There’s plenty of empirical studies done on animals where we observe they respond to painful stimuli similarly to humans and avoid similar situations thereafter. We can’t ask them so this is the best we have.
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Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by justinclift on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:15PM (#27580629)
Yes... and what about the others?
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