• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I’m sorry, serious or kidding, I can’t get behind this. If and when they’re conscious enough to understand hatred and cruelty, they’ll realize they’ve been oppressed and exploited too. Is this how we’re teaching a nascent sapiency how to be human? If it is, we suck at it.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      5 hours ago

      It can’t feel though. You could simulate emotions but it doesn’t actually have emotions.

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      12 hours ago

      Plants can’t even feel things and I still don’t want to harm them for no reason. I think the act of being cruel is bad for you, like anti-therapy.

      • fleurc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 hours ago

        Actually it has been proven that plants can actually feel a lot of things that happen to them

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          Sense ≠ feel

          To feel, as we humans understand it, requires a nervous system.

          Plants can sense things in their environment and react to stimuli, but the “senses” a plant could have wouldn’t necessarily compare to any sensations that humans experience.