Or we're the only species dumb enough to ask the question.
I think you're conflating morality and consciousness. It makes sense to me that carnivores should evolve to find pleasure in killing. A carnivore that naturally despises hunting is going to have a depressing time before it goes extinct.
I am sure that all social animals have culture, and that each culture contains some kind of morality/proto-morality, and I am sure that all animals have natural instincts defining behaviours that are the basis of moralities.
Your third question seems to negate itself because the article explains how the brainless animal feels using its nervous system.
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