Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Edwardo Piet]

Because I don't think chickens are sentient.

That's just a restatement of what you already wrote.

No, you responded asking why on earth I thought that they didn't feel anything. I said because I don't think they're sentient. I didn't know you knew that was the same thing so I was trying to clarify that for you. You seemed clueless about sentience so I thought I'd point out more directly that it's entirely relevant to feeling.

I don't think they're sentient because I don't think their brains are developed enough to be sentient.

I take it you're not an 'animal person'.

How do you come to that conclusion? I love all animals, even the ones that I don't believe feel anything. I love robots and I definitely don't think robots feel anything.

All mammals definitely feel things. As to octopuses and other animals with the neurons required to be sentient.

What on earth makes you think animals don't require advanced neurophysiology to feel something? Aren't you an atheist that believes that we've all evolved from microbes? Do you believe all life has sentience? Would you call grass sentient? Bacteria sentient? Viruses sentient? And if so where do you draw the line, and why? All animals are sentient? Bacteria are animals. Do you think they're sentient? Anything that is a vertebrate is sentient? What about octopuses? Why are your lines so arbitrary? Why on earth do YOU think the way you do? You sound to me like you may as well believe in souls.

No need to be such a sardonic shithead towards me when you're the pleb who is coming across as the unthinking nutjob, from my perspective. Of course actually thinking about sentience and how it relates to neurophysiological advancement in biological beings doesn't stop me from being an animal lover.