Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by option on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:36PM
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why not? This harms no one
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Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by briefcomment on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:41PM
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I think it dehumanizes humans.
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by sooheon on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:55PM
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So it offends your sensibilities, but GP is correct, it doesn't physically harm anyone. It probably will help reduce conscious suffering in the long run.
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by jodrellblank on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:20AM
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GP didn't say it "doesn't physically harm anyone". Are you saying there's no harm except physical harm?
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by sooheon on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:45AM
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Obviously not. But the set of harms that should reasonably be given as an answer to "why not?" is not equal to the set of all imaginable harms.
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by briefcomment on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:40AM
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Let me clarify. I wouldn't be surprised if the smell and taste of cooked human flesh causes physiological and mental changes to humans. Those changes could possibly lower the barriers for human to human violence.
Probably worth studying before bringing this into the mass market.
Maybe case studies of cannibalism would shed some light. An otherwise peaceful society who, for example, eats recently dead people, may suggest there wouldn't be any concerns with lab grown human meat.
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by renewiltord on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:38PM
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Interesting. If this isn't an interaction between a high-divinity moral foundation individual and a low-divinity individual.
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by just-ok on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:46AM
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Surveillance doesn’t physically harm anyone, either, but does that also reduce conscious suffering in the long run? Sibling comments are right: physical harm != harm.
Re:Steaks Grown from Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
by sooheon on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:56AM
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There is a more direct link from surveillance to physical harm (loss of freedom, imprisonment, death) than there is from lab meat. I agree, physical harm != harm, but harm != harm we should restrict others' freedom in order to prevent.