You have a point but what I was trying to express is the irony of the experiment. To see if animals have empathy we basically torture them and see how they reac

You have a point but what I was trying to express is the irony of the experiment. To see if animals have empathy we basically torture them and see how they react... Call it empathy or whatever but I know I suffer under certain situations and can't see why a rat does not. They have 2 eyes and four limbs just like us maybe just a little bit less computing power.