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Human/animal ethics is a minefield of hypocrisy. Why are we mostly comfortable with performing these types of experiments on other lower-IQ species but would baulk at doing them on intellectually-handicapped children for instance?

I believe our morality base for these types of decisions is mostly based on the religious traditions of humans somehow being 'special' in the scheme of things. Domestic pets also partially fall into this category.

To counter with an extreme example: plenty of medical progress was made via Nazi and Japanese experiments on live subjects during the second world war. So no, categorically the ends does not always justify the means.

The assumption being that human lives are far more valuable than non-human lives.

Where it gets funky though is trying to quantify that to an extent: how many monkey disfigurements is worth fixing one human disfigurement? Ten? A thousand?

How many chimps would you blind in order to prevent humans being blinded by the latest lash extension cosmetic?

"Children's Health Defense is an American 501c3 nonprofit advocacy organization,[1] known for its anti-vaccine activism. According to Seth Mnookin, much of the material put forth by the organization involves misinformation on vaccines and anti-vaccine propaganda.[2] It was founded and is chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[3] Established under the name World Mercury Project in 2016, it has been campaigning against various public health programs, such as vaccination and fluoridation of drinking water."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Health_Defense

Fun fact: despite being an apex predator, there are no recorded human fatalities from orcas in the wild.

If you ignore places like Australia that locked down hard and early. Melbourne experienced a near total 3 month lockdown for example. The result? Pretty much zero local cases now and life back to normal, sans international travel.

If anyone else is wondering when "autumn 2019" is, in an international format: it's the fourth quarter of 2019.

"Stand back and stand by" as spoken to a pseudo white-nationalist group.

Can you explain what Pelosi's Chinatown visit has to do with flight cancellations. And also who called Trump a racist for proposing flight bans.

There's clearly a line in the sand to be made somewhere here e.g. funding child pornography or terrorism. The easy answer for Stripe is "we ban any account that promotes illegal activity". In that sense, I can see the rationale of banning a political campaign that has clearly fomented an attempt at circumvent a legal civil process.

"It's hard to reason with someone waving a confederate flag in your face"

You don't need to look very hard: https://thedonald.win/p/11ROLVhJcx/this-many-patriots-would-...

I suspect it has more to do with the next generation of policy makers about to be sworn in, and what regulation they would look to enact.

Remind me of the last time the Capitol was stormed by an armed group in order to stop a democratic process from proceeding.

What do you think the cable ties and side arms were for exactly? https://external-preview.redd.it/F7f2NmCrRmpXaLGMcwGn7NiaQ8f...

Fox News is the most popular cable news though?

define coup: "a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government"

Sudden: check Violent: check Illegal: check Attempt to sieze power from a government: check

Those numbers already do have unique names.

It's all just different flavours of radio waves.

Venemous. They're only poisonous if you eat them.

Just snakes, spiders and the occasional drop bear. The risk is exaggerated though: 2 snake bite fatalities last year in total, 1 spider bite fatality in the last few decades.

Or you could be propogating a conspiracy theory. Hard to say without cited evidence.

Opinion: like most of their other cuisine, German bread trades subtlety for robustness.

Keeping the elderly working is not an absolute negative.

"NextDNS is proud to announce that all your blocklists are now applied to each intermediate CNAMEs in addition to the queried domain name.": https://medium.com/nextdns/nextdns-added-cname-uncloaking-su...

You can authenticate works by the artist here: https://pestcontroloffice.com/

For those of us who loathe excercise for the sake of excercise, may I suggest metalworking? You get the distraction of a project / learning to make cool things and it's a surprisingly physical process to inflict your will on such dense objects.

Why would you connect the switch when it makes far more sense to have software controlled relays controlling each circuit at the fuse box?

Addiction aside (looking at you too caffeine)... how is nicotine bad exactly?

Publish a benchmarking tool for end users. Request their permission to share results with you each time ... profit.