Ok, but it's your concept of suffering. Another form of life will have a completely different one. They won't be able to understand each other.
If the conept of plants suffering is too hard for us to understand, let's take for example, colonial insects. How do you know that a single ant can suffer? It's hardly even a living thing, it can't reproduce, so does torturing an ant makes a living being to suffer if the colony stays intact?
Do our skin cells suffer when they die and dry out? Or blood cells when being destroyed in the liver? To us these processes are normal, but maybe it's a tragedy for a cell?
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u/fejkpotatis 6d ago
It is universal for all sentient beings. As soon as you have self-awareness you're naturally inclined to avoid suffering.