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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by konart on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:48PM (#25104135)
>shouldn't we take responsibility for the results of our creation?

"I gave you life, I will take it" - Taras Bulba.

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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by grawprog on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:54PM (#25104185)
https://youtu.be/BpaRouocBes

>You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks—in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it.

Mark Twain

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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by nshm on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:06PM (#25105846)
Other piece of Russian literature is also relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog

The story of turning dog into a man by transferring a part of the human brain

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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by D_Alex on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:17PM (#25107949)
Um... Taras Bulba really should not be quoted in support of "responsibility"...
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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by konart on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:52AM (#25111582)
Responsibility can take different forms. That's my point.
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