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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by ralusek on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:54AM (#25278317)
That first metric is highly subjective. There is a growing movement of anti-natalists that believe that having children is immoral, because being born a human is worse than never having existed, and people can't consent to their existence.

I don't think we'll be able to move beyond subjectivity for the morality of this, but I do think we can be more precise.

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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by bigbubba on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:23PM (#25278727)
Such people, when met in real life face to face, inevitably remind me of Aesop's fable concerning a fox who wanted grapes but couldn't reach them.
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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by BeefySwain on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:04PM (#25279244)
Interesting. We tend to feel the same way about those who disagree with that premise.
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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by theonemind on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:51PM (#25284300)
It hardly matters. The ethics hold, or they don't.
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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by jpcooper on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:59AM (#25288850)
In the case, the fox did get to the grapes and verified that they are indeed sour.
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