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Plants And "pain"

insurrection	May 21 2004, 12:56 PM #106
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Nino	May 23 2004, 08:56 AM #107
Urban Guerrilla Activist 383 25-April 04 England 2,072	Surely if a plant can feel pain it would of made some sort of response to show the pain. Also would it need a brain, receptors and a nervous system to feel or recognize pain. -------------------- I am neither christ nor philanthropist... I am the complete opposite of a christ.. I fight with whatever arms i have at hand for what i believe in and i try to destroy my opponent rather then letting myself be nailed to a cross or anywhere else. If you respect life, defend it

cosmic	May 23 2004, 02:44 PM #108
Magneto, alpha(E/H)^2 ZDLRNet Admin 5,960 29-November 02 L.A., CA 1	Plants are extraordinary organisms. The lengths they go to reproduce, grow(strangler fig?), flower, and the awesome way they "feel" the earth. It would be ignorant of us to assume plants are sensory defecient. -------------------- Classic

Nino	May 24 2004, 05:06 AM #109
Urban Guerrilla Activist 383 25-April 04 England 2,072	But they dont really feel they reach for nutrients. Roots dont feel they just sense for example water and take it from the soil. In my opinion i would say a living thing would have to have a brain that recognizes pain and if it did i would presume it would produce something to counteract the threat of being put in pain for example a person who is going to be punched will normally try to avoid thepunch not to get hurt. -------------------- I am neither christ nor philanthropist... I am the complete opposite of a christ.. I fight with whatever arms i have at hand for what i believe in and i try to destroy my opponent rather then letting myself be nailed to a cross or anywhere else. If you respect life, defend it

Banksy

May 24 2004, 05:56 AM

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they just sense for example water

= sensory.

I agree though i don't think plants feel pain like we feel because they don't have a consience. Its debatable whether they can "sense" the pain though.

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Nino

May 24 2004, 11:49 AM

#111

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= sensory.

What was the point in that banksy umm nevermind.

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I am neither christ nor philanthropist...
I am the complete opposite of a christ..
I fight with whatever arms i have at hand
for what i believe in and i try to destroy
my opponent rather then letting myself be
nailed to a cross or anywhere else.

If you respect life, defend it

Holter

May 24 2004, 01:16 PM

#112

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Do you avoid walking on grass, everytime you step you are bending a piece in half. Have you ever eaten maple syrup? They stab into a tree and let it slowly ooze into a pot. All these things would hurt anything. Most pain in humans is mental. The more you focus on what is hurting you the more it hurts. Ive been burnt badly before and it hurt like hell, but once you try to channel your focus on something else it hurts considerably less. That to me means that pain is a mental issue, and seeing as plaints dont have a brain, they dont feel pain in the same way that we do. To them its just an obstacle in their way of life. Like the punture hole in the side of a maple tree, It hurts because it is losing a part of itself. But it doesnt realize that it is hurting, it just trudges along. A plant doesnt know about potential circumstances that may come from that puncture wound. We do, so we focus on it and the pain becomes worse because of fear. IMO plants do not have the capacity for fear or hurt because they lack our intelligence, which we all know is what separates us from every other species on Earth. This can be a good and bad thing in us, but that is not a part of this argument.

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Banksy	May 24 2004, 01:18 PM #113
Freedom Fighter Activist 2,270 1-February 04 U.K, Manchester, Wigan 1,603	Because cosmic said "it would be ignorant of us to assume plants are sensory defecient" then you put "Roots dont feel they just sense for example water" -------------------- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

cosmic	May 24 2004, 02:16 PM #114
Magneto, alpha(E/H)^2 ZDLRNet Admin 5,960 29-November 02 L.A., CA 1	here we go in our little loop again. So basically its only about "pain"...not that its alive? -------------------- Classic

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May 25 2004, 06:52 AM

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QUOTE (cosmic @ May 24 2004, 10:16 PM)

here we go in our little loop again. So basically its only about "pain"...not that its alive?

I think your right

The main issue people have with plants and the feeling of pain isn't anything beyond the very definition of pain.

in a dictionary pain is defined as:

1. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
2. Suffering or distress.
3. pains The pangs of childbirth.
4. pains Great care or effort: take pains with one's work.
5. Informal. A source of annoyance; a nuisance.

Under those definitions I wouldn't believe that plants feel pain. However if you define pain as a stress response, generally with the intention to aviod pain then i know plants feel pain. It's been observed many times that plants have actual responses to stress.

So I think that everyone isn't arguing whether or not plants feel pain, but more-so indirectly arguing "what is pain"

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Nino	May 25 2004, 07:55 AM #116
Urban Guerrilla Activist 383 25-April 04 England 2,072	A plant doesnt have a nervous system, a co ordinator eg a brain or spinal colum. A plant is like a group of specalized tissues that dont feel and dont sense pain. -------------------- I am neither christ nor philanthropist... I am the complete opposite of a christ.. I fight with whatever arms i have at hand for what i believe in and i try to destroy my opponent rather then letting myself be nailed to a cross or anywhere else. If you respect life, defend it

cosmic	May 25 2004, 08:37 AM #117
Magneto, alpha(E/H)^2 ZDLRNet Admin 5,960 29-November 02 L.A., CA 1	^ that has been reiterated through and through. Doesn't every organism have the right to live whether or not it has the capacity to sense "pain?" -------------------- Classic

Nino	May 26 2004, 07:20 AM #118
Urban Guerrilla Activist 383 25-April 04 England 2,072	It has no rights its a plant. I understand where our coming from but in my opinion it may have a right to live but its not really that important for it too. Although without plants and trees we would die i dont think killing a measly plant is going to count as murder or if someone does they shouldnt feel like they have killed anything with much purpose. -------------------- I am neither christ nor philanthropist... I am the complete opposite of a christ.. I fight with whatever arms i have at hand for what i believe in and i try to destroy my opponent rather then letting myself be nailed to a cross or anywhere else. If you respect life, defend it

cosmic

May 26 2004, 10:25 AM

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Magneto, alpha(E/H)^2

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It has no rights its a plant

Why not? Explain...

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they shouldnt feel like they have killed anything with much purpose.

Are you serious?

Plants don't have much purpose?

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ImperialAerosolK... ImperialAerosolKid	May 26 2004, 12:03 PM #120
Freedom Advocate Activist 5,060 21-June 03 Vermont 483	Even when you kill an animal for food it still has a purpose. Live life without living plants...you'll understand purpose when you're fainting from too much carbon dioxide.

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