[pandaman]

For example, let's take cocaine rats, which is a real research paid by my tax dollars. Is it some kind of big government vision that created this? Can you locate a Call for Proposal that spawned this? How does it benefit me as a citizen and a taxpayer?

[robotresearcher]

You can’t see any way that an improved understanding of happiness and/or drug use could help people? You don’t see any way that the government, on behalf of the People, would want to understand wellbeing and/or drug abuse better?

It’s not about the fucking rats. You KNOW this. Everyone knows this. The ‘cocaine rats durrrr’ type argument is not in good faith. I simply don’t believe people are that dumb.

[pandaman]

>You can’t see any way that an improved understanding of happiness and/or drug use could help people?

I can't see how is this research helping anyone other than the researchers themselves. Also I can't see the Call for Proposal for that, I figure there was not any, as I expected.

[robotresearcher]

I am revising my belief.

[donkeybeer]

>I simply don’t believe people are that dumb.

Sometimes a spades a spade, some people are just fucking stupid, magas for example.