What people on this thread are trying to say is that things like cars and robots are created and seemingly understood by us humans. We took inanimate objects an

What people on this thread are trying to say is that things like cars and robots are created and seemingly understood by us humans. We took inanimate objects and pieced them together using principals we've learned from observation of these inanimate objects. Insects on the other hand are what we've scientifically classified as biological things. Creatures that share some of the same biological qualities we have. Unfortunately, humans don't understand all parts of their own biology to even recognize how similar another living thing is. What I'm saying is that if pain is a perceptual result, we have no way of saying insects cannot perceive it the same way we do. All we know is that they have brains, like most other biological creatures, and that the base assumption should be that they do have pain. Take any other creature like a dog. Why would a dog feel pain? Their brain's may be more complex than something like an ant, but who's to say the rise in brain complexity has brought about the emergence of pain? Humans know too little about the world but a lot of people insist on taking the opinion most convenient to them. If they don't have to think about the fact that they inflict pain on insects, they can keep killing them in a variety of ways without any moral apprehension in the slightest.