No! It implies only that if you inflict some comparable injury on a human and bee (adjusting for e.g. bees diminshed size) the human will feel, on average (though lots of uncertainty), around 10X as much pain. Moral evaluation of this is something different!
>The mean estimate was [that bees suffer] around 15% as intensely as people.
To clarify. Does this mean that when comparing:
A horrible prison keeping 10.000 humans
A beehive with 70.000 bees
The estimate implies that some people feel that the beehive is a worse moral problem? This strongly contradicts my moral intuitions.
No! It implies only that if you inflict some comparable injury on a human and bee (adjusting for e.g. bees diminshed size) the human will feel, on average (though lots of uncertainty), around 10X as much pain. Moral evaluation of this is something different!