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Happiness, hypermotivation and the meaning of life
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And the Meaning Of Life. Video clip (WMV; 0.94Mb) of an Olds' rat crossing an. Electrified grid to self-stimulate its pleasure-centres. Stepping on a strongly electrified grid is highly aversive. A desperately hungry rat - even a rat who hasn't eaten for 10 days - won't run across an electrified cage-floor to reach a food-source: the shocks are too painful. But a rat with electrodes implanted in its neural reward circuitry will. Cross the grid, repeatedly, to gain the chance to self-stimulate. That regul...
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Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Frequently Asked Questions
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We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. Ach day we butcher. Millions of other sentient beings because we like the taste of their flesh. The functional development and intensity of suffering. Magine the anguish caused by an oxyacetylene torch applied, if only to a few seconds, to your child's face. Unspeakably appalling? Argues that ther...