• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Just because there is no indication of their suffering doesn’t mean they don’t suffer.

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      Dude common, really?

      Plants don’t have a central nervous system. Pain and suffering is not in any way an evolutionary need for plants. We have a CNS and get the impulses, because we have the ability to do something about. Hold your hand above a flame and the pain will make you retract your hand. Hold a flame under a leaf and it’ll just burn.

      Furthermore your claim is currently infalsifiable. We can’t proof that you’re suffer even if you tell me that you’re suffering.

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        Indeed. Many plants even bear fruit that is intended to be eaten. I don’t think any animals intend to be eaten. Fruit is specifically supposed to look and taste good, so that animals eat it and crap out the seeds elsewhere. Even edible leaves are beneficial, as the animals leave fertiliser (more shit).

        Though, to say the plant wants to be eaten would be a stretch. There’s no evidence of a thought process, it’s entirely developed just from evolutionary gain. Animals, however, do think.

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          1 year ago

          Have you considered that certain parts of a plant wouldn’t feel pain if plants can feel pain just like we don’t feel pain when cutting our hair for example even though our hair is a part of us

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        Just because they don’t have a central nervous system doesn’t mean they don’t feel. Perhaps there is a different mechanism for pain that we simply haven’t discovered yet.

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          Just because the moon doesn’t have a central nervous system doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel pain. Perhaps there is a different mechanism for moon pain that we simply havent’t discovered.

          Ever heard of unfalsifiability? If yes, go join any religion you want, because they’ll be really receptive to you.

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              There are exactly zero good scientific reasons to believe plants feel pain my dude. I’m not being close minded nor open minded, I am just being sensible. Being “open minded” about anything without any solid justification isn’t being open minded, it is being naive. Are you going to call me close minded for not believing purple swans exist? We didn’t use to know that black swans existed, so maybe purple swans exist? I believe just as much in that plants feel pain as I believe in that santa exists, which is effectively nil.

              To quote the website I found (doplantsfeelpain.com):

              “We consider the likelihood that plants, with their relative organizational simplicity and lack of neurons and brains, have consciousness to be effectively nil”. That is not entirely zero, but for all intents and purposes zero.

              This is not only based on non-extrapolation, but also based on our knowledge of consciousness, feelings and pain.

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                We used to say those same things about communication and decision making.

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                  We used to think rocks were completely solid, then we discovered they are actually mostly empty space. Perhaps one day we’ll discover rocks feel pain too.

                  Have you ever heard of epistemology?

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      Since you think it’s possible plants suffer, you should go vegan, since more plants are consumed to provide an omnivorous diet than a vegan one. All those cows/pigs/chickens/etc need to be fed before you get to eat them. So your comment is actual an argument for going vegan.

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        I don’t know whether plants can suffer or not. I just think it’s silly for someone to use it as a reason not to eat meat when there is not strong evidence that plants don’t suffer.

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          If plants don’t suffer, then a plant based diet has less suffering. If plants do suffer, than a plant based diet has less suffering.

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            Only if you assume the suffering of a plant to be less important than the suffering of an animal.

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              It takes more plants for an omni diet than it does for a vegan diet. So even if plants suffering is worse, a vegan diet is still better.