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In response to your second question, I believe that animals still experience pain. Although lobsters do not produce endorphins to help them handle intense pain, it does not mean that their pain receptors are absent all together. For example, some point out how pain is subjective. They claim that lobsters do not experience the same pain we humans do, and they go on to say that the creatures might not even mind the pain. However, this begs the question: why do they try to climb out of the pot of boiling water? If they truly did not mind the pain, wouldn’t they just relax in the boiling water as they are burned alive? Therefore, I think pain is the correct term in this case. So much so that we even realize, deep down, that we are hurting them.

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