> It might be hard to empathise with someone whose cuteness level is several orders of magnitude below a golden retriever puppy, but it’s true: insects experience feelings, and the more creatively scientists go about measuring these feelings, the more we find out about them—so who knows, maybe in the future we’ll have to exercise some compassion and tenderness towards nature’s vilest creation.
Is the author still talking about insects at this point, or conservatives in the US?