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Originally Posted by TGS
So for you it's the fact of a thing being a living thing that's important, rather than it's capacity to suffer?
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Before I could answer that, I'd like to know what 'capacity to suffer' means exactly. Does it involve having a complex nervous system* for example - but who's to say that an orchid suffers less than a mosquito suffers less than a mouse when either are killed (for example).
*understood in a very broad sense as in being able to respond to stimuli from the outside, which I would say plants are able to