Do flies feel pain...?

Cause I kinda chopped a bluebottles legs off by accident in work!

I feel so bad for it...

 

For about 0.000001 seconds.

 

not if you smack them fast enough.

 

this is filed under who cares.

 

Respect for life.... "Who Cares"....

Consider it filed there, along with your opinion.

 

you don't care for my opinion?

 

there was a MRI of a flies brain on how they think .. it was very interesting.
Say the fly has/had to move, its brain pattern is different then if it chooses to move on its own..
Im on a fly killing mission right now.. So far its been hiding.. It cant maneuver in here anyways cause of the fan...

 

dont feel bad a baby bird just fell out of its nest under the carport and dilli fed it to the dog.lol

killing a fly is nothing in comparison..lol

 

Hmm I kinda thought in the back of my head that they had no nerves therefore they couldn't feel pain. Crap I hope they don't.

 

:rofl:..

 

i truly hope so

inflicting the most pain on as many flies as i can in 5 minutes is a great workout

 

Wait...you (Dave) feel as though this should be "filed under who cares," yet when someone says that your opinion should be invalid because you apparently feel no one should care about this you question whether or not they care about your opinion? (which is pretty apparent....that you could care less about both the subject and what anyone else thinks about it)

Anyways Ocean,
I don't know if there's any "empirical" evidence as to whether flies feel pain or not....may be worth a google? Pain or no pain, that probably prohibits him from surviving very well now ...not to say it's "good" or "bad or anything.....I think it's really "cool" that you care about the well being of another life form other than that of yourself, or of the same species though.

 

how can anything that has a central nervous system NOT feel pain?

pain is part of survival mechanism. now as for emotional interpretation of pain, i rather suspect, however dim and dull, even hive insects have some sense of their existence. it not individually, their 'hive mind' very well might.

does this mean you should loose sleep over having accidentally broken the legs of some finite number of flying insects? well i wouldn't encourage anyone to go out of their way to make a habit of it. just on the gp's of how that effects one's mind toward the rest of existence among other thing.

but other then that, well, nature's approach to insect populations is generally to bread many that live not very long to make their species as a species able to more quickly adopt to changes in their environment.

i just apply the old "you kill it you eat it" and avoid causing harm, unless there's a more pressing and immediate need not to. which with insects, is not all that unusual for there to be. even though nutrition is not usually one of them.

 

I respect a person who isn't bothered by a fly's presence much more than one who is.

 

they just found out that lobsters feel pain a few weeks ago. i don't think they've gotten around to testing flies yet.




but yes, yes they do feel pain. in fact, they feel pain collectively, so when you cut off that fly's legs you actually hurt every fly on the planet.

 

ya wanna know the funniest part about the answers in this thread??

seems the OP is suicidal..

Grr! Stupid doc!!!!!!

:smilielol5:

:leaving:

 

Lobsters scream when you put them into boiling water.... I don't think it's a recent discovery that they feel the pain....

 

they're still mounting evidence...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29915025/

 

Peta is going to be soo mad

 

They scream in boiling water and not cold water.....

Case closed....