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What about something like lab diamonds? You can give nature billions of years to "do it's thing" or we can produce the same result in a lab in a matter of weeks
by Guest9081239812 4y ago
What about something like lab diamonds? You can give nature billions of years to "do it's thing" or we can produce the same result in a lab in a matter of weeks without any suffering and at a fraction of the cost. Synthetic processes can be quite efficient and it sounds like you're discarding them completely which is a little shortsighted.
- abfan1127 4y agoI'd argue synthetic diamonds and synthetic "life" are pretty different. We also don't eat diamonds.
- toasteros 4y agoNo, but we send people down into deep pits to dig them up with very little regard for their wellbeing. There's an amount of suffering "required" for the production of both of these things. A diamond itself is not screaming in agony as we prepare it for use, but there's a human cost involved.
- phpisthebest 4y agoCreating Lab meat is in no way creating synthetic "life", it is more akin to synthetic diamonds than synthetic life
- ben_w 4y agoWhat about lab grown ice, then? When that was new, people complained it didn't have the same healthy green[0] color as the natural stuff. [0] i.e. from the algae trapped in it when it formed
- midoridensha 4y agoSynthetic diamonds are also objectively superior to natural ones.