U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by kaba0 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:58AM (#29890442)

What else would matter? Ethical dilemmas stem from the sentience of a given being. Killing a cell is not really morally questionable, since it is just a (very) complex machinery. While we are ourselves also an even more complex machinery on a physical level, we have certain emerging properties that are not found in cells, but are found in dogs, pigs, etc.

So one can very well claim that torturing beings that can feel pain is wrong.

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by conductr on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:39AM (#29891899)

> So one can very well claim that torturing beings that can feel pain is wrong.

That’s fine and all except we don’t live in a morality version of the matrix. Philosophical arguments hardly effect human behaviors at large.

> Killing a cell is not really morally questionable

Perhaps. But once the cell is fertilized there’s a large population of prolifers that beg to differ yet there is objective no intelligence at this stage of life.

Humans are not so rational as I think you’d like them to be. They also just are rather uncaring hence while this argument/PETA and so on don’t usually change anyone’s feeling towards the issue.

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