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Re:CRISPR Editing in Primates by bigcorp-slave on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:58PM (#27227945)
Hi, not using a throwaway so you know I’m sincere. As someone with a serious and currently incurable disability, I would support testing on one hundred billion non-human primates if it gave me a 5% chance of a cure.

I’m sure you’ll find people who don’t feel that way. But I can’t overstate enough how horrible it is to go from being a functional adult with all the joys and sorrows that brings to being a much less functional person in pain every day. That is reality for millions of people. I don’t feel that what GP did was gross. I think it reflects reality for people who suffer on a daily basis, and whose loved ones do.

Re:CRISPR Editing in Primates by teachingassist on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:32PM (#27229182)
> I would support testing on one hundred billion non-human primates

It's your choice to support that; but there are only about four million non-human primates on the Earth/or, 400,000 great apes.

A good percentage of them are already being tested on.