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Bombing justifies itself?

Ah, the Science Men. Remember when they asserted, absolutely positively, that if you were an animal, then you had no brain, and you could feel no pain? Seems like only yesterday. That's because it was.

But, these days, some of the Science Men, they are starting, dimly, to perceive, as through a glass darkly, that when it comes to understanding the animals, they understand nothing at all.

Like cats. And physics. Some Japanese Science Men, they have now learned that cats know physics. And that they've known physics a lot longer than have the humans. And that they know physics better, too.