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Edit: Hmm something was wrong a tried to post several times but the page didnt load... now it seems i posted it twice :shrug:
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Yeah, but why would you want to?But we have finally learned to create a balanced diet without animal flesh if we so choose.
Can you imagine if there was a sea creature that would one day evolve the intelligence to surpass man but live in the ocean? Isn't that theoretically possible? a sea city.
Can you imagine if there was a sea creature that would one day evolve the intelligence to surpass man but live in the ocean? Isn't that theoretically possible? a sea city.
I think a major reason for thinking fish dont feel pain is that the dont react to pain. They dont cry out, flinch or run away when you hurt them.
That was basically my rhetorical question. What would motivate people to give up meat? Why don't you ask some vegetarians, I'm sure like all of us you know several.Yeah, but why would you want to? [Eat a diet without meat just because we now know how to balance it]
It would almost surely have to be a mammal or a bird. Cold-blooded vertebrates, especially gill-breathers, just don't take in enough oxygen to sustain a large brain. There's a fundamental conflict between aquatic life and the building of civilization: the former selects for fins (seals and penguins) or only two nearly vestigial fins (whales), whereas the latter requires prehensile appendages like fingers. We regard the use of tools as a key step in the development of intelligence, and it's a required step in the development of civilization. The most intelligent marine mammals lost their fingers tens of millions of years ago, when that clan of hippopotamuses swam down to the mouth of the river and decided to keep going because the food was so great out there.Can you imagine if there was a sea creature that would one day evolve the intelligence to surpass man but live in the ocean? Isn't that theoretically possible? a sea city.
Enough debate. Fish feel pain. Enough. Done.
Humans "feel" pain; there is no evidence as far as I'm aware that any other organism does not similarly "feel" pain, so the default inference is that they do so.
Humans "feel" pain; there is no evidence as far as I'm aware that any other organism does not similarly "feel" pain, so the default inference is that they do so.
Do plants feel pain?