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* mouse embryo
by leetrout 4y ago
* mouse embryo
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoImportant point. Pretty fucked up to do this to a human.
- M3L0NM4N 4y agoThat's arbitrary.
- epgui 4y ago
- furjrudjrufurrj 4y agoFucked up to do it to a mouse too. Go damn speciesist
- xwdv 4y agoNot a human, just a thing made of human parts.
- aliqot 4y agoit's a homunculus
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agomurinculus
- domador 4y ago...and that kind of thinking illustrates the kind of dehumanizing attitude that is harmful to the "products" of such experiments, such as the person that would develop from such an embryo. Very worrisome research.
- tsimionescu 4y agoAssuming the embryo eventually developed, it would eventually become a person. But just like sperm and egg cells are not persons, and fertilized eggs are not persons, embryos are not (yet) persons.
- alexvoda 4y agoI find the term person to be key here.
- colanderman 4y agoAt the embryo stage, what's the difference?
- 411111111111111 4y agoThe difference actually doesn't change, wherever it's in embryo stage or not. The human is easier relatabe and enjoys a special status from organized religions.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoEven putting aside the embryo vs adult issue… pretty much everybody, religious or not, considers a human qualitatively different from a mouse.
- colanderman 4y agoHence why I'm asking about embryos. What, scientifically, differentiates a human embryo from a mouse embryo, beside what it may eventually become? Why find the experimentation of one appalling, but not the other, when neither is allowed to grow? (I am not arguing one way or the other, merely that it is illogical and unscientific to differentiate.)
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoBecause life begins at conception.
- colanderman 4y agoFor mice surely too then, no?
- Thorrez 4y agoIt's the abortion debate. I'm against abortion. The way I see it is a person has rights no matter the person's age. Earlier in development just means younger.
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- dang 4y agoInmiced now. Thanks!