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Re:1962 U.S. Military Ejects Bear from B-58 to Test Escape C... by coldtea on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:17AM (#16677447)
>Animal testing cruelty wasn't really being thought about heavily in post WWII military aerospace development

Considering that the endpoint is machines killing actual people, it would be the height of hypocrisy in my books for them to care about "animal testing cruelty".

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Re:1962 U.S. Military Ejects Bear from B-58 to Test Escape C... by badosu on Monday March 26, 2018 @05:43AM (#16677727)
I don't (reading modern past and foreseeable future), but if you subscribe to the idea of 'just war'[0] it would make sense.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

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Re:1962 U.S. Military Ejects Bear from B-58 to Test Escape C... by uhtred on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:46AM (#16679260)
By "actual people" do you mean "who cares about animals dying in horrendous ways when people will be dying?"
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Re:1962 U.S. Military Ejects Bear from B-58 to Test Escape C... by coldtea on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:59PM (#16684823)
More precisely, if a project is about making killing machines for people, that it might kill some animals to test them is the least of its moral problems.
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