capable of suffering, as animals clearly are, does that being not possess a very real, innate interest? Surely it does. Any creature capable of experiencing pain will carry with it a vested interest in avoiding that pain; its life-long mission will be to seek out pain's opposite, pleasure. And in preference, there is choice. As an example: every year horrific research conducted on animals in labs rests solely upon an animal's tendency to choose behavior that will not elicit a painful electric shock- is this not a choice, perhaps the most fundamental choice a living being can make? And if we undertake to depri
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