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Given the choice I'd kill literally every monkey and pig on the planet if it meant we had the technology to cure paralysis.

I honestly can't comprehend the alternative. You'd walk up to some poor sap paralyzed from the neck down and say "Gee I'd really love for you to walk again but I'm a little bit more concerned about the pigs and monkeys?".

I think what you're failing to comprehend is that some people have a trait called empathy which prevents them from genociding the better part of a billion individuals for the sake of a few being able to stretch their legs.

The juxtaposition of an accusation of missing empathy with describing curing paralysis as "being able to stretch their legs" is striking.

We kill 80 billion animals for food every year. Pretty sure 1500 to advance science is nothing in comparison.

And I wish we had a better way, but we just don't yet. Bioinformatics is working on creating virtual bodies, but we're not there yet, it's decades away.

A lot - we eat thousands of animals over our lives.