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Plants also suffer.
Why wouldn't they, if suffering is the key to the world's unity? A flower suffers when touched by the oblivious hand.
There's a muffled complaint in its soft pliancy.
A stone is paralytic, eternal suffering.
We who are animals can't even claim the exclusive privilege of suffering.