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 @07:10AM (#29890564)

They are not arbitrary though. Historic, perhaps. E.g. pork was disallowed as far as I know due to the spread of diseases from bad conservation techniques at the time.

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by jhgb on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:06AM (#29891014)

But that's one of the differences between faith and knowledge, namely justification. You'd be correct to claim that it's non-arbitrary if you happen to know that this justification was how it was arrived at. Randomly arriving even at a correct belief without justification would not AFAIK constitute knowledge.

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by sharno on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:25PM (#29894496)

IMHO this is human arrogance. It's the belief that as a human you are able to know and justify anything and everything with science and rationale, which is mostly wrong if you look at history.

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