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Old 06-26-2009, 10:26 AM   #261
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Originally Posted by Sparrow View Post
I think evolution gave us the ability to suffer pain so we could avoid harm.
If you put you're hand in a fire, the pain makes you take it out before too much harm is done.

A carrot cannot take avoiding action, so I doubt if it ever evolved the ability to 'suffer', since it wouldn't give it any evolutionary benefit.

But, I'm no expert.
Another argument could be that a tomato or banana fx can still ripen after it has been plucked. So there is no indication of it being deeply traumatized.
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