Do humans feel pain worse than animals?

Question

Do humans feel pain worse than animals. human self preservation is much higher than other species of mammal. We are advanced in intelligence and nervously.

So.. Do we feel pain worse than other animals, fish , arthropods etc.

And do we experience a different kind of sensation..

Answer 1

we will never know.

I hope so, because animals deserve no pain.  

Answer 2

if animals could talk, they tell you how muck it would hurts

but y aknow...they can't

so uh.....

yea..............................

Answer 3

No i dont think so...

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Answer 4

No.

Answer 5

different pains i would say

Answer 6

There's no way to really know.  Human self-preservation is higher than other species of mammals - says what reputable peer-reviewed journal?  Look at bonobo chimps - they don't fight, instead they have s*x.  We have wars and declare s*x a sin - who has the higher level of self-preservation.  As for do we experience stronger pain than animals, I don't think so because the brain waves from animals in pain and humans in pain are fundamentally the same.  Look that up in Science or Psychological Review!

Answer 7

We feel pain to prevent ourselves from further injury.  I'd imagine animals adapted to react to harmful stimuli, such as heat like we have.  Obviously, mammals are easier to relate to, and I'm sure you have seen/heard a pet or animal react to pain.  

I think it is easier to tell ourselves animals do not feel pain as we do because it lessens the guilt we feel from say, cooking a live lobster.  

Maybe animals, like starfish, do not feel pain as we do.  If a starfish loses a leg, it grows one back.  Curling itself up into a ball, and cringing in pain will not increase its survival, so maybe it doesn't feel intense pain.  If you, however, lost an arm, one would not grow back, and pain would let you know to take care of it.

Answer 8

we express it more