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Originally Posted by jscott
Do plants have a nervous system for feeling pain/suffering?
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Kinda yes, but I don't know about the pain, but does feeling pain matter anyways? If feeling pain would be bad thing I think it wouldn't be such common evolutionary trait. Most species are hunted by some predator and still they all feel pain (despite of 99,99 % dying feeling pain). Why? Because feeling pain promotes survival. And as we speak about hunting, I don't think that feeling pain is some counterargument. Similar counterargument would be "Those try to run away." No shit, I wonder why (sarcastic)?
And the notorious chickens feel pain too, no matter are those bred for food or not. Would it by the way make things different if someone is bred as a slave (children of slaves)? Would slavery be then more OK? You know, you would be tagged from the birth. Categorization seems to make people feel easier about things; like when you label someone as "criminals" it is suddenly OK to do all kinds of shit to them.