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Yeah, I'm sorry, this is pretty horrific. The technology behind it is amazing, and the company should be applauded for trying to get children interested in neuroscience, but to hijack a living creature like that? Being squashed by the boot of a shoe seems merciful in comparison to being turned into a Pokémon.

Of course, the above is a response based on emotion, maybe aesthetic grounds. I'm sure a bioethicist can create a better argument against this.

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This type of cockroach control is pretty par for the course in undergrad anatomy lab sections... I think the only part that seems weird is the gamification of making it a remote control app.

Undergrad labs sessions also sometimes involve taking organs from a recently deceased human and dissecting them.

Do that in your kitchen and you get labelled a murderer.

Context is everything.

> Do that in your kitchen and you get labelled a murderer.

No, you don't. You get labeled a freak, and you may or may not be charged under health-related laws.

To be labelled a murderer, you have to kill someone.

I suspect that rather depends on where you got those organs.

(As an aside.. what purpose do you think your comment served? Do you really consider that I - the author - or anyone reading it didn't realize you have to kill someone to commit murder? It was an analogy, and I deliberately made it succinct. The point of the comment you replied to was "context is everything". To be fair, you have made that point rather well, although I suspect that wasn't deliberately.)

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