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creating novel ideas or feeling pain?

I'm not sure I agree that generating new ideas should be the criterion of whether causing harm to an entity is morally acceptable. The better criterion should be the ability to feel pain. If an animal, say a dog or a higher mammal, can feel pain due to its more evolved nervous system then causing pain, suffering or death to such animal should be considered morally wrong, unless it is demonstrably clear that it would prevent greater pain of suffering somewhere else.

by AIS on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 05:38

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