• iusearchbtw@feddit.uk
    6·
    22 hours ago

    if, hypothetically, i punched you hard as fuck in the balls, there would be two emissions of noise

    1. the impact sound of my fist against your balls, and possibly various fleshy ricochets (not a scream)
    2. the sound you make from your mouth when your nerves transfer information about the impact to your brain and cause a reaction (yes a scream)

    i hope this has been an illustrative example

    • FelixCress@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      22 hours ago

      And? How do you know that plants are not screaming from pain of being cut?

      The reality is we don’t know. We don’t even really know how other humans perceive pain (as it is highly subjective), nevermind mind other species.

      • iusearchbtw@feddit.uk
        4·
        22 hours ago

        that might be one of the infinite mysteries of the universe, like whether everything is actually a boltzmann brain’s fleeting hallucation, but fortunately we do know with certainty that animals scream and flail and panic and thrash when you try to kill them on account of having a very very similar nervous and cognitive system to you, and also that you have to cut a fuckload of plants to feed them before you kill them anyway

        hope that helps

                  • iusearchbtw@feddit.uk
                    3·
                    21 hours ago

                    yeah animals do all sorts of fucked up shit humans agree is bad but then often do anyway like kill or rape or whatever, but we applied that big brain of ours and came up with stuff like Philosophy and Hydroponics and Soya Burger and now we don’t have to kill others to survive or rape to spread our genes or pretend that animals in pain are Literally The Same as cut grass