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The onus is never on other scientists to prove an assertion false if it is made without evidence. The initial burden is always on the person making the initial
by ineedasername 5y ago
The onus is never on other scientists to prove an assertion false if it is made without evidence. The initial burden is always on the person making the initial claim.
You can play semantics with the word "pain" all you want, but the biological differences between what we call pain as experienced by humans and the stimuli response from plants are sufficiently different to surpass a difference of degree and make it a difference of kind. You need a word besides "pain", or the onus is on you to demonstrate the appropriateness of that term when you are using it so far outside its normal context.
- dennis_jeeves 5y ago>You need a word besides "pain", That is indeed fair enough to ask for a different term. If one were to discuss technicalities then you are spot on. But I think we have digressed, the post that I responded to, was along lines of ( paraphrasing but not exact words) : It is somehow ok to eat plants but not animals, because they are different. I was taking an exception to that line of reasoning.