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Re:Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body by mr_overalls on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:42AM (#18770544)
Our lives and laws are necessarily filled with quasi-arbitrary lines and conventions. What is the age of consent for marriage? What threshold of blood-alcohol is too much to drive a motor vehicle? When is someone considered dead?

Comparing the acknowledgement of such lines with racism is ridiculous.

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Re:Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body by wvlia5- on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:38PM (#18770984)
Ok, so let's propose another quasi-arbitrary line and convention: black people can be enslaved, white people cannot. So, this rule would be just as arbitrary and valid as any other. Or is there a ethical justification against it?
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