a Pete B snip followed by > my comment..
Deep understanding of suffering suggests that rocks do not suffer. Continuing on the capacity of invertebrates to suffer:
>Well when the time come you can ask Gandhi yourself. I suggest he was saying that rocks erode from the elements (wind, water, temperature extremes and friction). This is of course the shallow understanding and the deeper understanding would be how these things work individually and together to make what we think of as one ingredient of soil. As it turns out people benefit from this suffering....
Gene in Central Texas...
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