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> I don't think this is a matter of science. Our dogs and cats are living, emotional creatures. If by that you mean that nobody should be experimenting by doin
by lucb1e 5y ago
> I don't think this is a matter of science. Our dogs and cats are living, emotional creatures.
If by that you mean that nobody should be experimenting by doing intentional harm to any animal which we can reasonably suspect to be able to experience pain then I agree. If you mean that emotions are beyond science to comprehend, then I'm curious why you think that is?
- Stratoscope 5y agoThat is a great question, and I don't really have an answer. Perhaps I am being shortsighted. If I were to try to answer, TheOtherHobbes came closest to my feelings about it and explained better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425288
- lucb1e 5y agoOkay yeah that's way more philosophical than I was thinking. To me it's just neurons that fire and chemicals that are released in response to stimuli. That's the science part and the way we can iirc already recognize pain in brain scans. Or even just behavioral: you can observe how it alters its behavior depending on what the hurter does after hurting the animal. (Horrible as such a thing would be, it would still be science, even if we might choose not to use data obtained by extremely immoral research.)