At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

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Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Source
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Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

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I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Source
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