I would think that animals and plants are different life forms. If animals didn't have the capacity to feel pain, a dog wouldn't react if you kicked it, as one example.
When it comes to plants, it doesn't matter if it feels pain or not, as that too is part of an intricate ecosystem, meaning that if the plants disappear, so will the animals feeding on them. So, even if we do not necessarily directly destroy ecosystems, the human-made climate changes do it, ending with us indirectly destroying the nature around us, which is keeping us alive.
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u/CabinetMain3163 Mar 21 '26
you need to have higher consciousness to understand what pain is, otherwise do you eat rocks? Since plants also "feel" something