Do Insects Feel Pain?
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Do Insects Feel Pain?
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#2Man I always feel bad having to kill a pest insect.
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#3I never intentionally harm a single insect... except flies and mosquitos. I hope they do feel the pain as they deserve it!
Other than that I respect all of them.
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#4By definition, all life responds to stimulus, the most important of course being injurious phenomena.
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#5I never intentionally harm a single insect... except flies and mosquitos. I hope they do feel the pain as they deserve it! Other than that I respect all of them.
For me it's various forms of fruit flies. That they come into my office and just fly at my face or in my food randomly... well, i hope they suffer lol.
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#6I wonder if the invading aliens will wonder if we feel pain? However they decide, I just hope they make it quick.
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#7I never intentionally harm a single insect... except flies and mosquitos. I hope they do feel the pain as they deserve it! Other than that I respect all of them.
For me it's various forms of fruit flies. That they come into my office and just fly at my face or in my food randomly... well, i hope they suffer lol.
I'm plagued by fruit flies but I can't say I've ever wished them harm. Which is weird because they're incredibly annoying. I think something has to be annoying me "on purpose" for that. And sure, I might swat at them or whatever, but that's just to make them go away.
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#8I suspect most living creatures feel pain; it's a survival mechanism.
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#9I think a more relevant question is: do mosquitoes feel bad about killing humans?
Billions of us, most of them children.
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#10Descartes' ideas about automatism have had an unhealthy effect on the development of modern society.