Chadwick Boseman Is Dead
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Anyone not lucky enough to be a millionaire or 5% STEM professional is fucked.
Edit: cost of my admission, day 1: https://imgur.com/a/pnMRRKw
And cancer impacts a large percentage of us at some point in our lives. It's fucking awful. It's a failure mode of multicellular organisms, and each of us have lots of cells nearing that state continually.
I have some extremely controversial ideas to accelerate progress on beating the disease, but I get downvoted and called a monster every time I suggest them.
We need to create decephalized monoclonal humans. If we can grow humans that lack brains just like plants, we can vastly accelerate research in real human models.
Research is the rate limiting step. Let's give researchers the best model, orders of magnitude better than what they've got currently. It's like we're asking them to develop cutting edge graphics on pen, paper, and punch cards.
We would also get an unlimited supply of organ, tissue, and blood transplants and can potentially remove all the immune markers / reactive HLA groups. The whole process becomes a new industry that self-sustains itself.
We could even make in roads on simply replacing parts of ourselves as we age. Bone marrow and immune system replacements.
Everyone calls me evil, but it's the most moral thing we could do.
I'm clawing to try to make it to a point where I can push this hard.
Seriously, I believe the essential problem is that we don't want to get used to treating beings who look, seem and feel human, as non-human. We want to, and are, moving in the opposite direction.
Man's inhumanity to man is worse than cancer.
An animal with high cognitive function is a person.
> Man's inhumanity to man is worse than cancer.
A brainless human has no rights, no feelings, and never existed as a conscious entity. It's a tool.
The inability to accept this as a remarkable solution is beyond disappointing.
> we don't want to get used to treating beings who look, seem and feel human, as non-human.
Doing so might enable you to counter it. Or at least, understand where others are coming from. Let me parallel your claims:
> A baby is a human without a mind - therefore not a person. A baby is an animal without high cognitive function. A mindless human has no rights, no feelings, and never existed as a conscious entity. It's a tool. Babies fail the self-awareness mirror test (until about 15-24 months).
Do you feel comfortable doing this to other people's infants? How about your own first born?
I just checked and it still happens today, it probably happens with many other indirect translations with ambiguous intermediate words.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d73e9m/a-qa-with-the-firs...
It's hard to overstate the cultural impact a movie like Black Panther had. It maybe seems silly, seeing that it's a comic book movie, but it truly showed what can happen when you give a bunch of excellent folks a real summer blockbuster budget, who historically don't get carte blanche.
And to think of Boseman's artistic output while battling this awful disease. Truly a gift to the world.
Then again, it probably would have been hella irritating in the moment. Kids telling me "no mister Johnson I will not sit in my seat, Wakanda forever", in Wakanda accent.
While battling stage 3 colon cancer he gave us Civil War, Marshall, Black Panther, Infinity War, Endgame, 21 Bridges and Da 5 Bloods.
He had such an incredible and successful career and was really just beginning to become the A list celebrity he was born to be.