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Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.

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[–] Senal@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

It wasn't until the (late) 1980's that there was universal acceptance that baby human's felt pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies

Its not better that this was the case, but it's a little more even-handedly stupid.