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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This...plants feel pain. Mushrooms may actually be sentient. Everyone draws their own lines, it doesn't make them better or worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that animals feel pain and are sentient like us, and despite the pop science articles to the contrary there is no scientific evidence that plants feel pain or have sentience at all. Plants respond to stimulus in very complicated ways, that's what we have evidence for. Don't pretend the two are equivalent. Stop getting your ideas from sensationalist pop science garbage and read the actual studies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

So your line is at "feels pain on a level identifiable to something in the animal kingdom"