+699 Sometimes you wonder if plants can feel pain. They ARE suppose to be living organisms, amirite?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl, look it up. Seriously awesome :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's by Roald Dahl? Well, I learned something today.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, he wrote a buttload of short stories for adults, some of them are pretty disturbing xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wonder this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I used to get mad when I was little and people would rip leaves off of plants and say "how would you like it if someone pulled your hair?!"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha at first i thought it said "pants" instead of "plants" :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So did I. XD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my friends mum always apologises when she picks flowers, she said she feels bad if she doesn't, it's rude.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Pain results from a series of exchanges among three major parts of your nervous system: Your peripheral nerves. These nerves extend from your spinal cord to your skin, muscles, bones, joints and internal organs. Your spinal cord. The nerve fibers that transmit pain messages Your brain, which can respond to pain by sending messages to the spinal cord that modulate the incoming pain signals. Plants like any organism, are able to respond to outer stimuli but don't feel pain the same way we do. They don't have the same type of nervous system as animals so they interpret 'pain' very differently.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The concept of feeling "pain" requires consciousness, of which plants are biologically incapable of.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's why most vegetarians are hypocrites.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i don't wonder. They already proved that plants have feelings and can sense ours in the either late seventies or early eighties.

by Anonymous 10 years ago