Drew's Question 3: Why did God create animals with pain receptors? John McCrae responds: (1) animals don't experience pain "exactly the same" as humans — they lack equivalent emotional/psychological pain; (2) pain is necessary for survival; (3) "psychological trauma" in animals is overstated (sloth bear eating its own cubs, chimps killing young).

John challenges Drew's claim of identical pain experience. Pain receptors serve survival — without them animals would go extinct. Drew's psychological-trauma claim is undercut by animals that eat their own young and continue normally — clearly not experiencing human-level trauma. Dead animals also can't experience psychological trauma, making it irrelevant to being eaten.