If this device can help someone that is otherwise paralyzed interact with the world that is life changing.
It does expose that I value human experience way above animal experience but I've yet to find a reason not to. We use them for food, as many of them do to other animals. It's an odd part of life that suffering is part of the circle of life.
I’m saying I could not be that person who performed these surgeries and look at myself in the mirror when the day is over.
Now that I'm older, though, disassociating is harder. It's hard for me to look at meat without thinking about the animal it came from. If I were forced to kill and butcher animals myself in order to eat meat, I know I could not do it in good conscience.
Ergo, if I cannot do it in good conscience, I find it difficult to see how anyone else can.
Obviously “nature” is a difficult concept to pin down, but I disagree with this sentiment. I think probably most factory farming (especially of chickens and pigs) is waaaay more cruel than nature (whatever that means)
Its not that neuralink did monkey experiments, every medical device company does those all day, there are entire facilities dedicated to doing so with populations of hundreds or thousands of animals. The issue of that neuralink tortured those animals, did shoddy half baked work and therefore caused undue suffering to them.
It's like cadaver work, it's a necessity for our modern medicine. It's one thing for a student to do cadaver work to learn how to be a surgeon, respecting the sacrifice of the cadaver. It's another thing entirely to disrespect that cadaver, disrespect that sacrifice, that's illegal. That's what neuralink did, disrespected the sacrifice.
This is not true. The agreement American society seems to have is "do whatever you need to do to keep the bacon on the shelves and make it cheap".
What actually happens behind the walls of a slaughterhouse is an atrocity, the cruelty is unimaginable. I've watched it. Do a search for "factory farming undercover videos" and learn the truth behind mass factory farming. It is right there on the internet now and has been for nearly 20 years now. Multiple source, multiple films. So much. It is very traumatic to watch.
I don't quite get why if nature is cruel then some level of cruelty is okay. If I have a button that when pressed, will cause all cruelty in animals to be gone, I would be wrong not to press it. Suffering is suffering regardless if its "natural" or not.
how would carnivores and parasites eat?
is there not some possibility there might be some small question of whether or not pressing the button is moral?
Or even better, the button will move every conscious being into their own universe where they are the only conscious being. The process is perfect and the being cannot observe any difference. Each of these world progress in parallel (does not diverge) and therefore all beings existed in a world where they would have existed. Except no being is suffering.
Edit: Also, just because they need to eat the way they do does not mean that it is still not suffering and is therefore a moral bad. Why can't animals be "wrong"?
All I'm saying is that in spite of knowing it'd advance humanity, I wouldn't volunteer to be the monkey, and I don't think you would, either.
It's not either or. Both are terrible for the animals. Just in different ways.
> Lactose-free
They don't know what identical means.
>Cows don't face trauma and PTSD and emotional harm
There is no way we can know this
We absolutely know for a fact that animals don't experience trauma the same way and to the same severity as humans. They're literally incapable of human level emotional harm.
Some short reading: https://forthesciences21003.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2020/05/04/a...
How do you know this? And would you feel the same if we did it to a pet female dog?
because they aren't humans.
And yes I feel the same way about artificial insemination on dogs as I do on cows. It is a quick, instantaneous, and painless process that I cannot imagine any animal would think about twice when done properly.