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by inimino 2211 days ago
> the practicality of it is irrelevant if the whole idea is immoral

Agreed.

I didn't read his post as saying that the payment had anything to do with the ethics of it, and we routinely pay participants in clinical trials for their time. I don't see the idea as something that's impossible to do ethically, and you do, but apart from that we are in agreement. Thanks to you too.