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by sploitable 1817 days ago
The greater good is the slipperiest slope in the history of slippery slopes. Plus, this only "applies" if you are a utilitarian. The same rationale was used by the Nazi Scientists and the Japanese Unit 751 during WWII to justify psychopathically sadistic human experiements on POWs.

Sentient beings do not want to be brutally experimented on. This self-selecting industry of sociopaths belongs in the 19th century.
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perl4ever 1817 days ago
>Sentient beings do not want to be brutally experimented on

This is obviously false, because transplanting a uterus to a genetic male was done on a human, voluntarily, long before this experiment.

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DangitBobby 1817 days ago
Well, they were capable of consent and consented. I also doubt that they had their circulatory system fused with another female human by surgically splicing them together. I imagine they would have declined if that were the case.
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perl4ever 1817 days ago
How her suffering and death (in 1931) compared with the rats is irrelevant to my point which is just about the value of the research to humans.

I can't argue whether someone should be concerned about humans or rats and how much and what experiments are worth it. How you balance one creature's suffering with another. Nobody can or has ever answered that.

I meant to counter the idea that transplanting a uterus has to be without purpose and can only be attributed to idle cruelty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe

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