>>17784681Anthropomorpization of anything is a uniquely human activity.
Dogs and horses are particularly interesting since they've largely co-evolved with humans. The "emotions" they are "feeling" are not human emotions, rather their brains are adapted to provide input/output stimuli that helps form more productive relationships with their masters. A dog that has been raised from birth by a human for example will yield to it's human's opinion on basically everything. Dogs are not well adapted to eating sweet fruit, their tastebuds and if you were to taste an apple with a dog's tongue it would taste like petrol, but a dog will prefer an apple over say a steak if it believes it's master prefers apples to steak, since in the dog's brain master knows best.
When you apply these principles of networked inter species consciousness to insects you quickly realize they are utterly indifferent to any "cruelty" we inflict upon them. They don't experience you cutting on them with a scalpel any differently to coming into contact with a sharp rock. For them it's just reaction to stimuli and it's actually you that is experiencing the injustice.
If you cut on a cockroach the cockroach doesn't care, it's you that experiences the pain.
