Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids can feel pain or become conscious—and how would we know?

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    18 hours ago

    Fuck ethics, push science. As long as they don’t kill children to get the brains out, ethics-mumblers should keep their mouths shut.

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      17 hours ago

      “Fuck ethics” and “don’t kill children” are mutually incompatible statements.

      You believe in ethics, you just put the line at a different point than other people. Maybe that means exactly what the article says - our society needs to start discussing the situation to see where we want to draw the line.

      And don’t get me wrong, I agree with you in general. Humans tend to be TOO worried about ethics, for example GMO plants are generally quite harmless despite being outright banned in large swaths of the world.

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      17 hours ago

      You know “ethics” in scientific pursuit doesn’t mean just one thing, right? ie there’s a wide swath of territory between “let’s breed these fruit flies to study genetics” and “now where did I put my baby decapitator?”, and it’s important to evaluate the ethical ramifications of an action at each step along the way.

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      18 hours ago

      Oof wtf?

      As well, if you go so far, why exclude killing children? Are you a closeted ethics-mumbler yourself?

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      17 hours ago

      Is the lembot username designated to the worst people?

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      Yeah, totally not a nazi perspective, after all no crimes of war were committed in the name of science ever