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Originally Posted by TGS
Is suffering like having a headache - which you can't have without knowing you have it, or is it like having a brain tumour, which you can have and know nothing about it? Does there have to be some phenomenological content to suffering - does it have to feel like something, or is it enough for certain things to be true for suffering to be present - the sheep is kept in a barn, in darkness with no room to gambol and frolick in a sheep like way, therefore it suffers?
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I like this question and would like to add:
What happens when an animal becomes inured? Has the suffering stopped? Has the morality changed?
Troy