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Originally Posted by flstf
Well sure, we are mammals and high up on the food chain. It's easy for us to ignore any pain that the plant might feel after all they are not like us.
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A plant does not have a central nervous sytem or a brain. There is no reson to believe that it is sentient. Sentience is a necessary condition for pain, hence there is no reason to suggest that plants feel pain.
Similarly a loud-speaker connected to a pressure sensitive pad the beeps everytime it is struck would not be considered to be feeling pain.