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shminux comments on Mike Darwin on animal research, moral cowardice, and reasoning in an uncaring universe - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 25 August 2012 05:36:41PM 9 points [-]

I'm wondering if rats and dogs also experience despair, the agony of knowing that things will never get better, that they will keep suffering until they die. This seems to me to be at least just as bad as the physical agony.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 25 August 2012 06:45:40PM *  12 points [-]

Good point. "Behavioral despair" is often deliberately induced in rats for the purposes of testing the efficacy of antidepressants.

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