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God this is awful. Tears of animals used to control populations of lab animals. What is it with Hacker News and some fascination of this topic. Here is from a
by unixhero 7y ago
God this is awful. Tears of animals used to control populations of lab animals.
What is it with Hacker News and some fascination of this topic.
Here is from an earlier post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867382 (possibly NSFL)
- pvaldes 7y agoIt is assumed that they are trying to mass produce the peptid in a laboratory, not making the babies suffer. Wouldn't be animal tears anymore. (I wonder of the mice could enter in a depressed state at a middle term by that. Not directly related, but most humans (visual animals) would get depressed, or emotionally touched at least, if forced to work in a room full of posters of crying children. Maybe mice would have developped a similar response with olfactive signals..)
- unixhero 7y agoYes. I agree, and you're right of course. My comment was meant more metaphorically, when it's synthesized. It's still a tragic example of how we humans shape the world. Now featuring synthetic tears! To me that is a little horrific.
- prostheticvamp 7y agoYes, if you focus on that imagery, sure. Human tears also have antibacterial properties that have been explored for antibiotic purposes. The tears of grieving parents used to save future children from death! Or, you know, it’s just a protein, and the tear is just the fluid where it was initially found, and you’re adding all the extra meaning yourself, which is a reflection strictly on you.