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You are missing the point. The point is that we have a system that yes, harvests those animals for food. But we have an agreement in society that our goal is
by iancmceachern 4y ago
You are missing the point. The point is that we have a system that yes, harvests those animals for food. But we have an agreement in society that our goal is to harvest those animals without unnecessary cruelty. If some rancher were torchering their animals while ranching they would go to jail.
Its not that neuralink did monkey experiments, every medical device company does those all day, there are entire facilities dedicated to doing so with populations of hundreds or thousands of animals. The issue of that neuralink tortured those animals, did shoddy half baked work and therefore caused undue suffering to them.
It's like cadaver work, it's a necessity for our modern medicine. It's one thing for a student to do cadaver work to learn how to be a surgeon, respecting the sacrifice of the cadaver. It's another thing entirely to disrespect that cadaver, disrespect that sacrifice, that's illegal. That's what neuralink did, disrespected the sacrifice.
- ElijahLynn 4y ago"But we have an agreement in society that our goal is to harvest those animals without unnecessary cruelty." This is not true. The agreement American society seems to have is "do whatever you need to do to keep the bacon on the shelves and make it cheap". What actually happens behind the walls of a slaughterhouse is an atrocity, the cruelty is unimaginable. I've watched it. Do a search for "factory farming undercover videos" and learn the truth behind mass factory farming. It is right there on the internet now and has been for nearly 20 years now. Multiple source, multiple films. So much. It is very traumatic to watch.
- iancmceachern 4y agoOk, fair point. But this has nothing to do with the article.