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Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:38:37 2011 No.2407942 [Reply] [Original]

Can bugs/insects feel fear?

Ants, wasps etc. attack larger things without hesitation so I would think that they don't right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:42:37 2011 No.2407961 >>2407942 Define fear. If it's aversion to pain, then yes I believe they feel it.

>>	Implying Mon Jan 24 22:43:37 2011 No.2407968 >>2407961 I was unaware they could even feel pain.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:52:37 2011 No.2408019 >>2407968 Well not in the human sense. Maybe better to say aversion to death. I mean insect will usually retreat when attacked unless they have the upper hand as a swarm.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:54:37 2011 No.2408026 Think of insects as complex robots. They don't feel pain, or fear, but they know that some things are bad and will avoid them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:56:37 2011 No.2408038 Humans definitely feel fear, but you often see them just as willing to sacrifice themselves. A bee that dies to defend its hive is the same as a human dying to defend their nation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:58:37 2011 No.2408053 File: 53 KB, 351x405, wasp-attack-finish--.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2408038 ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH MY FELLOWS!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:00:37 2011 No.2408064 They cant even feel a thing and most not even pain.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:02:37 2011 No.2408075 File: 45 KB, 400x300, wasp-attack.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2408053 FOR QUEEN AND HIVE! CHARGE!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:03:37 2011 No.2408082 >>2408064 How do you know? Were you ever a bee bro?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:05:37 2011 No.2408087 instinctive fear and pain only the end.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:06:37 2011 No.2408095 File: 138 KB, 800x533, butterfly-and-wasp-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2408064 FEAR IS FOR THE ENEMY! WE KNOW NOT OF PAIN!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:09:37 2011 No.2408103 To answer this question you'd have to define fear. For that you'd need /phl/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:11:37 2011 No.2408114 >>2408038 Actually they're even less than that. A bee dying to defend it's hive is more like a white blood cell dying to defend the body it lives in. It's not an issue of morality, or kinship, it's pure instinct, robotic programming.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 23:16:37 2011 No.2408145 >>2408114 Bees have feelings bro, prove me wrong. Checkmate.

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