[Peter666]

"Is your actual position that animals are incapable of feeling pain as we generally define it?"

I have already made it clear that animals feel pain but not to the same degrees that a human can.


"... and by the way, did you just make this up? " Even physical pain requires a great sense of awareness of what is going on" or do you have some source for this?"

Anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows that pain perception is not merely an automatic reaction to stimulus, but has many contributing factors such as expectation, personality and mood.