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I agree it is more common than it should be. But to most humans this seems horrible. And it seems horrible because we all assume bugs can feel pain.

It is not that kids treat them like that because they assume bugs do not feel pain. They do it despite that. Kids know this is not the same as cutting grass.

any kind of subjective experience a plant has would be on a very long timescale

Why would that be an issue? Are sloths less capable of pain because they are slower?

And you’d have the weird situation where it’s mind “grows” as it’s thinking

Why would be an issue with that? Kids brain grows and you have no issue with acknowledging their mind? It is not too hard to imagine?

For sure, people treat a dog as if it has pain, and lettuce as if it doesn’t, and I’d be surprised if you wanted to change that.

What a strange assumption on my intentions…

They do groom themselves. Trees grow a tissue around their wound. A chayote bends its vine on response to my touch. Yes they use chemicals and hormones to perform that action, but so do we?

Their nervous system is of course different and slower than ours, but you have no mechanism that would say you or cricket feels pain and my chayote does not. From my point of view you, chayote and crickets might all just be philosophical zombies and just respond to some stimuly as robots.

Those criteria seem vague enough one can probably count most plants as capable of pain…

But generally outcome seems obvious and intuitive enough. Would normal person intentionally torture cricket just for the fun of it?

It might be slight overextrussion.

That is really nice to hear! I share your feelings ❤️❤️❤️