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  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    True, it’s impossible to prove a negative. But we can all very easily see that if you kick a dog, it hurts, it gets scared, it learns to avoid you. If you kick a tree, it doesn’t. Does it mean it doesn’t suffer? I can’t prove it, but does it definitely mean that the dog is suffering? Yes, I can prove that.

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      6 months ago

      If you kick a tree, it doesn’t

      … it doesn’t behave in a way that you interpret as being scared or hurt, and of course trees can’t avoid you. but you don’t know the experience of being a tree.