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Why do you think they don't? (lemmy.world)

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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago

Here's our belief system: don't kill or hurt animals as much as is possible.

Right, but by what is the ethical delineation between say a krill and a mushroom?

What is the difference between lesser evolved animals and highly evolved plants or microbes?

[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

One feels pain and has a brain. The other does not feel pain. Also one is an animal with a much more complex body than a mushroom. That makes for a more complex creature which can feel more and experience the world more.

I'm not saying krill are moral philosophers or poets. But they are much more advanced than mushrooms

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

One feels pain and has a brain.

There is no scientific consensus that invertebrates on the evolutionary scale of krill feel pain, and a ganglia isn't exactly what passes as a brain in vertebrates.

That makes for a more complex creature which can feel more and experience the world more.

I think that's highly reductive, especially considering that we continue to discover more and more about mushrooms. We already know that mushrooms are capable of learning, individual decision making, and have a short term memory.

We cant really make a qualified position of their complexity because we still don't understand a lot about mushrooms.

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