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		jojobas 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do Insects Feel Pain? It would be still ethical if it was conclusively proven they did. There's no shortage of ethical theories ranging from Jainism to Nietzsche and they basically follow the laws of natural selection.

TheNewsIsHere 3 days ago [–]

Are you suggesting that the ultimate arbiter of whether something is ethical or not is whether it would be allowed by natural selection?

jojobas 3 hours ago | [–]

Yes, natural selection judges ethical models just like it judges everything else.

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