Moderating Error

[Belinda]

There is no fault with the following post which was refused:

It's actually not difficult to distinguish between how degrees of pain and suffering correlate with species. Many people are intuitive about when an animal is suffering or contented. Farmers themselves often conscientiously prefer to keep animals in welfare conditions but the state of the market makes this difficult for them, if not impossible.

If one to be scientific about which species are to be considered candidates for welfare programmes,the degree of development of central nervous systems is the criterion.Bacteria dont have them. Lettuces dont have them.Hens do have them and can therefore feel pain . Cows and horses can and do know when other cows and horses are panicking in fear of death, which is a dimension of suffering in addition to immediate pain and frustration.

[Eckhart Aurelius Hughes]

Belinda, a poster with your high of a post count shouldn't be running into this problem unless a post is really, really bad, so I will adjust the filter to fix that. Nonetheless, I can show you what was picked up by the filter:

It's actually not difficult to distinguish between how degrees of pain and suffering correlate with species. Many people are intuitive about when an animal is suffering or contented. Farmers themselves often conscientiously prefer to keep animals in welfare conditions but the state of the market makes this difficult for them, if not impossible.

If one to be scientific about which species are to be considered candidates for welfare programmes,the degree of development of central nervous systems is the criterion.Bacteria dont have them. Lettuces dont have them.Hens do have them and can therefore feel pain . Cows and horses can and do know when other cows and horses are panicking in fear of death, which is a dimension of suffering in addition to immediate pain and frustration.

[Belinda]

Thanks Scott.

I think that the filter should not disallow the omission of the apostrophe in 'dont', nor arguably the omission of several other traditional apostrophe uses. The apostrophe has become difficult for many people to manage, possibly due to decreased reading levels, and should therefore be omitted when the sense is unaffected. I did not invent this by the way .George Bernard Shaw who was a better writer than I held this opinion.

'Criterion' is the singular of 'Criteria'. The syntax is clear that 'criterion ' is the object of the subject phrase that includes 'development' as its key(singular) word.

I agree that I should not have a comma in the first line of the second paragraph. However the unnecessary comma is a style fault that doesn't veil my meaning.