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Anonymous
Whether arthropods can feel pain or not, isn't it better to take the more conservative approach and assume they do feel pain? If it turns out they do, then isn't it a pretty bad weight to carry, knowing that we've been boiling them alive? (I'm not sure what the most humane way of killing something is, though. Maybe boiling is okay). Also, just because the shape or layout of a nervous system is different, it does not rule out the possibility that they can produce similar feelings. For a long time, we thought that insects did not have memories or that they couldn't learn, but this has since been disproven, even though arthropods don't have the same hippocampal region as mammals.
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