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AspiringKnitter 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: AspiringKnitter 08 January 2012 02:56:54AM 2 points [-]

Why doesn't he consider what he calls Level 2 pain and suffering? It seems to me that it's the very definition of pain.

Comment author: khafra 09 January 2012 05:04:45PM 0 points [-]

His analogy to blindsight seemed enlightening. One could say that animals do not experience pain in the same way that someone with blindsight does not see a baseball hurtling toward his face.

Comment author: jhuffman 09 January 2012 10:05:45PM 1 point [-]

Yeah I can just imagine the coyote thinking "oh weird I'm running away from this snake and yiping. I wonder what thats all about.".