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HoverHell comments on An argument that animals don't really suffer - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Solvent 07 January 2012 09:07AM

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Comment author: HoverHell 08 January 2012 02:54:41AM 0 points [-]

Even if they don't, seeing them suffer (or even knowing about it) brings some suffering to humans who see or know. Which is much less inherently important, but still does matter (… certainly not much enough for causing human famine or not conducting scientific experiments on animals for the sake of reducing their suffering).