Does a flea feel fear and pain?

Question

Give me a valid persuasive deductive argument in answer to this.

Answer 1

Fear and pain are part and parcel of the survival instinct... every living being is blessed with it.

Answer 2

well on pure observance it is tough to say. When a human is injured if the injury is severe it will come with no pain. The body releases opiates, and even sends the mind into hallucinations to cope with the pain. So you can't necessarily take absence of reaction as absence of pain. The injury to an insect would have to be minor enough to be felt and not so severe that it is sent to trauma. I know that insect nervous systems are divided into a central chord and ganglia, which are clusters of nerves. Studies have shown that insects do respond to injury with releasing opiates and other chemicals that might indicate pain. I think it is definitely likely that the body feels and accounts for pain. If a creature can control its own muscles, smell, see, and here, why should it be incapable of feeling pain?

and fear...well what is fear but the memory of pain? If a flea feels pain, can it remember that pain? probably not. Is their natural fear then? I don't know, I guess you'll have to ask a flea to know for sure.

Answer 3

No, fear and pain are complex emotions produced by brains. Fleas fortunantley smaller than hair, so they are unable to feel emotions.*This is what mpdern science would tell you.

*Without science.
All biengs feel fear and pain at different levels and differently. For a flea thta is about to get eaten or stepped on is fearing what massive and divine force is doing this?!
A parallel universe suddenly appearing to a clueless bug.

Answer 4

Ever noticed how anxiety or depression can snowball? When you feel yourself getting anxious, you get doubly anxious, and so on again, until we put the brakes on somehow, or the anxiety gets too obviously overblown for the circumstance. This doulbing and redoubling is a consequence of our being able to "stand back" from our own inner thoughts and feelings and to objectify them. Other ways of objectifying feelings diminish them.
___Animals lack the capacity to "stand back" from their own inner states. Some of the distinctness involved between our core consciousness and our own mental process depends on language, which provides a clear and distinct way for humans to put our own thoughts into external, spatiotemporal form, which provides an example of a fully objectified thought (as opposed to a simply experienced thought, in which only think the thought, not think ABOUT it.
___Animals can't wallow in their pain like we can. They experience pain, but without the secondary multiplier effects.

Answer 5

Flea dont feel pain because their body has this special abdominal protection, that's why we have use a human nail to crush it or press its body against a glue stick cap.

Flea don't feel pain.. unless they are suffocating in harmful chemicals or NIX. Due to their light weight, and when they jump up to 6 feet high as the MAX

Answer 6

I don't know about fear, but it does feel pain, right?