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Symbolizing and proving an argument.
Symbolize and prove the argument below:
Either animals are mere mechanisms (M) or they feel pain (P). If either animals feel pain or they have souls (S), then they have a right not to be subjected to needless pain (R) and humans have a duty not to inflict needless pain on them (D). It is not the case that animals are mere mechanisms. Therefore, animals have a right not to be subjected to needless pain.
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