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Unlike a vast majority of other animals, studies seem to indicate that insects are not capable of feeling pain and suffering. Killing insects is effectively jus

• ZoomZoomZoom 7y ago
  Do you think that augmenting human brain to not feel pain would permit killing?
• KineticLensman 7y ago
  > studies seem to indicate that insects are not capable of feeling pain and suffering All of the articles (e.g. [0]) I found in a quick search in response to this citation-free assertion suggested that the answer is more nuanced that that. I'd also observe that higher primates (e.g. chimps) that have pain mechanisms that are biologically very similar to ours can have a very different response to us. If you watch film of social interactions of chimps, e.g. [1], it's a fairly routine occurrence for an individual to apparently ignore injuries that would have a human screaming (e.g. a finger partially severed in a fight with a rival), especially if it would affect their hierarchical status to run away. So I wouldn't read too much into observed behaviour as an indicator of what is actually going on, at least for primates. [0] https://reducing-suffering.org/do-bugs-feel-pain/ https://reducing-suffering.org/do-bugs-feel-pain/ [1] https://monkeyworld.org/monkey-life/ https://monkeyworld.org/monkey-life/