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2 Post author: pcm 12 January 2015 11:38PM

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Comment author: freeze 03 September 2015 03:37:49PM 0 points [-]

Not necessarily. https://xkcd.com/1338/

If you assume that suffering is roughly proportional to number of neurons, then you should care disproportionately about mammal suffering, or even large animals in general; most animals are wild, but they are mostly insects which don't necessarily experience as much suffering each.