Athos
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The parentheses were there to denote that there might be relevant factors other than the intensity and duration of pain that might be harmful for the individual. For example the pain might also impose an opportunity cost on the individual experiencing the pain that make it all things considered worse than the same amount of pain of another individual who does not also experience a compariable opportunity cost.
E.g person A is a professional athlete who gets a knee injury. They cannot perform competitively as a result.
Person B is not a professional athlete who gets the same injury, but their career is not adversely impacted in the same way.
Although both experience the same quantity of suffering, person B is harmed more because of the additional opportunity cost they suffer. But species is not of direct relevance to this point.
No, I understand that. Which I why I edited. But your post doesn't address that edit; whether (and why) any moral imperative is species-blind?