Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing

Re:Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 anima... by dehrmann on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:51PM (#33884185)

I bet med schools kill similar numbers to Neuralink per year, and they've got nothing on the meat industry when it comes to suffering and death.

I'm not an Musk defender, and I'm a vegetarian, so this makes me at best uncomfortable. Knowing Musk, some deaths are probably due to pressure from the top, but this is a drop in the bucket when it comes to animal suffering.

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Re:Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 anima... by iancmceachern on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:13PM (#33887129)

And by the same logic the handful of people that Charles Manson killed was a drop in the bucket too.

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Re:Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 anima... by dehrmann on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:50PM (#33890432)

Not the same. I'm saying there's a double standard for non-human mammal life; torture and eat is ok, torture for science isn't. The de minimis argument wasn't the key point. Charles Manson also didn't kill anyone.

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Re:Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 anima... by iancmceachern on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:06AM (#33891866)

We don't torture to eat. That's an incorrect assertion.

Manson did kill people, he is in jail for doing so.

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Re:Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 anima... by dehrmann on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:59PM (#33897694)

> We don't torture to eat.

Right; torture is just a side effect. Same as with whatever Elon's doing in the name of science.

> Manson did kill people, he is in jail for doing so.

He didn't, and he died in 2017. He might have conspired in murders his cult carried out, but the evidence wasn't great.

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