Humans and other mammals release cortisol as part of the pain response.

So do lobsters.

They feel pain when they are boiled alive.

That alone should be enough information for a sane person to think "huh, if they feel pain maybe I should put in a small amount of effort to make sure they don't suffer when I kill them" instead of trying to justify why it's ok and use thinly veiled insults aimed at those of us who don't think animals suffering from avoidable pain is acceptable.

Disregarding the pain of something just because it doesnt have a cute face or fur is far more evidence of mental illness tbh.

"The fact that a lobster is food does not make it a more elevated being"

And I never said it did. I said the fact that it has an observable and measurable pain response makes it a more elevated being.

Lobsters are sentient, the science has proven it. They might be on the lower end but they have also been shown to demonstrate a limited form of memory and intelligence when it comes to things like pain, avoiding objects that are known to cause it.

I get not caring, but mate, you sound like an absolute psychopath who takes delight in killing them.

You are missing the point dude. Boiling alive is slow torture, they are not sa....

Fuck it good luck with your reading comprehension skills

I also don't waffle about a shoe on a cockroach, in fact I try my best to kill them as fast as possible and in any case will choose a shoe to spray, which takes longer. No point in making anyone or anything squirm in agony over several minutes unless I have a personal vendetta against them.

No, you smash that repugnant shit

Sounds like a very quick way to kill it.

I feel the need to point out that the person you're arguing with is not saying you shouldn't kill lobsters.

Your original comment made it seem as though you were not slicing their pea-brains in half, just boiling them alive (this was cleared up in your follow-up).

Having said that, there may be worse ways to go. In the first season of Shogun they put a guy in a large cauldron of water and slowly brought it up to a boil.

But then I remember that MrBallen story where the guy was pushed into an NYC storm drain and was steamed alive for several minutes in agony. From what I remember, steam isn't like fire where your nerves are essentially cauterized do you can't feel anything. You have to suffer through every minute of it.

Let's just agree to all show each other the courtesy of a knife to the brain.

Lobsters don't have a centralised brain. Shows just how much you know about lobsters.

No matter how many of them you have killed and cooked, that clearly doesn't make you a biology expert...

So basically everything you said, can be discarded as an uninformed garbage opinion.