I’m not sure this was intended but the ideas of “congenital analgesia” and “lobotomy” that are presented in this comment chain seem difficult to implement for practical reasons.
Also, analgesia, just the inability to feel physical pain, probably isn’t enough to guarantee welfare. This is because animals probably suffer in other ways (lack of access to well understood needs such as perches or nest boxes, avoiding aggression, movement, intense boredom or frustration).
It is possible that solutions that could work does look like reduced intelligence, and that might motivate the title the of the post. The idea is that someone who is doped up on painkillers will have both dulled senses and reduced executive function.
I’m not sure this was intended but the ideas of “congenital analgesia” and “lobotomy” that are presented in this comment chain seem difficult to implement for practical reasons.
Also, analgesia, just the inability to feel physical pain, probably isn’t enough to guarantee welfare. This is because animals probably suffer in other ways (lack of access to well understood needs such as perches or nest boxes, avoiding aggression, movement, intense boredom or frustration).
It is possible that solutions that could work does look like reduced intelligence, and that might motivate the title the of the post. The idea is that someone who is doped up on painkillers will have both dulled senses and reduced executive function.
Yes, “lobotomy” was just meant to be an illustrative example.