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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by EdwardDiego on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:53PM (#21778483)
> By 2015, as the Ebola virus ravaged the country, the New York Blood Center notified the Liberian government that it could "no longer divert funds from its important lifesaving mission here at home," a spokeswoman said in a recent statement.

Imagine being that spokeswoman, speaking such monstrous words.

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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by harimau777 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:26PM (#21778661)
In what sense do you mean? It seems reasonable that the money might be better used saving people than feeding monkeys.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by EdwardDiego on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:06PM (#21778824)
It's certainly effective, but "hey, so, we're going to let a lot of chimpanzees we made dependent on us starve, so we can save human lives" certainly isn't moral. At the very least pay for them to be euthanized.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by EpicEng on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:23PM (#21778904)
Which outweighs helping humans with that same money?
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by loopz on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:13PM (#21779099)
This is what budgets are used for.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by EpicEng on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:16PM (#21779105)
To... formally allocate money where it's most needed? Agreed. That is what a budget is for.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by loopz on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:51AM (#21780359)
Needed for who and what purposes? This is why budgets get sort of fixed, unless something need constant neglect.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by Ididntdothis on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:31PM (#21778679)
First of all the cost is probably pretty low and second you have a responsibility to care for an animal once you take it on. You can’t just throw them away once you are done using them. I think this is extremely callous behavior.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by ars on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:43PM (#21778722)
According to article it costs half a million annually. That doesn't seem low cost to me.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by EdwardDiego on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:04PM (#21778811)
There's an implicit moral obligation, surely.
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Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their... by Ididntdothis on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:51PM (#21779018)
I agree. Animals are not just disposable tools.
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