> even when talking about experiments designed to deliberately inflict pain on them. I know someone on the ethics board at a university and the experiments her

> even when talking about experiments designed to deliberately inflict pain on them. I know someone on the ethics board at a university and the experiments here aren’t so terrible > First, we verified that a stimulus deemed innocuous, like the touch of a soft makeup brush, activated touch neurons in the animal’s skin, and that a needle pricking the skin activated pain neurons. Then we recorded the animal’s response movements to each stimulus. Human experiments on pain usually involve sticking a hand in a bucket of ice water. People taking their daily diabetes medication, prick skin multiple times a day without complaint, though it might be unpleasant. But I’ll agree there’s a lack of sensitivity to the needless suffering of animals inflicted by humans. e.g., labs and factory farms have a lot to answer for. Though if we wanted to end suffering of all beings, we’d probably just want to terminate life completely such that a living being can never contrive to hurt another.. or somehow reengineer the biosphere to eliminate r-selection, and predation, an even more absurd proposition.