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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/IronyIstheBestPolicy on 2023-08-02 22:22:37.


Animals are protected under animal rights laws, but when it comes to killing insects, people don’t care about the morality despite the fact they are animals.

I don’t know a lot about it, but don’t insects have consciousness like other animals?

I’m not defending anything, this is just out of curiosity.

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    11 year ago

    In my understanding of it, no, insects don’t have consciousness because they don’t have a cortex in their brain. They can plan things out but they have no thoughts whatsoever.