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Possibly pointless philosophical question
Indrid Cold
Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
Suppose that some day in the future, scientist discovered that plants, utilising some previously-not-understood mechanism, do have some kind of intelligence. They can somehow make basic thought, and they feel great pain when they're cut, have a torturous slow death when they're uprooted etc.
If that was someday proven true, would the people who in the present are vegetarians not because they think humans aren't made to consume meat but because they're opposed to how animals are being mistreated stop eating completely, since plants are being mistreated as well?
If that was someday proven true, would the people who in the present are vegetarians not because they think humans aren't made to consume meat but because they're opposed to how animals are being mistreated stop eating completely, since plants are being mistreated as well?
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i think that makes sense..
According to QI we share more DNA with daffodils than monkeys
You remind me of someone I once asked what he'd do if aliens landed in the middle of the schoolyard one day. His response? "Aliens won't land because they don't exist".
My point is, yes, as far as we know plants don't feel. But the question was under the supposition that somehow they did.
It's possible theres a pile of bull shit in there.