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My thoughts exactly

• bredren 4y ago
  Yes, and what about the pigs? The detached coldness in the writing about the experiments on these creatures dates all of us. I find it odd how this can float by while we pine over the potential sentience of a server at Google. The acceptance of the brutality is inherent to our false sense of modernism.
  • SturgeonsLaw 4y ago
    Future generations will look back on this era's treatment of animals as barbaric. They will have the benefit of being able to grow vat meat identical to any steak and perform drug testing purely in-silico, so they will not need to use animals in the way we do now, but still, when you remove the economic/scientific rationale and look at the fundamentals of our treatment of animals, you can't help feeling at least a little bit saddened by it.
    • maximus-decimus 4y ago
      Or maybe they won't care and have less empathy for animals. If anything, it seems like if there were to be evolutional pressure, it would favorize humans sacrificing animals to improve humans' condition.
  • XorNot 4y ago
    Both of these issues have at their core the same question: are we gatekeeping "sentience" or I suppose, moral consideration, really - behind the rather utilitarian "so what's it done for us lately?"
  • donthellbanme 4y ago