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I'm not against OOP getting their revenge, but yes
it's just an insect and you are just a human. ^[assuming you are a human. Not sure, but I'll go with that.]
Just because it's suffering isn't as relatable to you as mammals, doesn't make it fine.
I remember having been answered once for plants, on their responses to stimuli and poisonous features are "just evolutionary".
Now, what most people find it hard to imagine, is that for some being significantly higher in the evolutionary path, can consider our brains as "just an evolutionary feature".
I’d take it a step further—there is no evolutionary chain. A chain implies linear direction. I’d argue it’s more like a rhizome, evolving in a rather random direction at every moment. Intelligence as we know it is just (1) a single arbitrary attribute and (2) a single arbitrary form of intelligence. Something with more capacity toward intelligence might not even share the same kind of intelligence as us, which could mean their logic would be incomprehensible.
Yeah, afterall, evolution is just about whatever fits the environmental conditions well enough to stay for long.