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I'm on board with what you're saying.
Doctors used to be told "human babies don't feel pain, they just react like the do".
Which is basically like saying "lobsters don't scream when you boil them alive, that sound is just air escaping"
To me, it seems less like an intuitive position to hold, and more like a fortunate convenience.
"I sure am glad that lobsters don't feel pain. Now I don't need to feel guilty about my meal".
No doubt, there would be a large demographic claiming the pain isn't real, it's just "simulated pain". - like, okay, let's simulate your family fucking dying in the most violent and realistic way possible and see if you don't develop incurable PTSD?
No, the lobsters aren't screaming. That has nothing to do with how they feel pain.
Good to know, though the point remains; people will readily accept claims which absolve them of guilt.
You essentially just illustrated it. Even though they aren't screaming, it says nothing about whether they feel pain.