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vblord on Nov 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk

Just curious what you would think if they cloned a monkey and then did the operation to the cloned monkey? Would you still feel sad for the monkey if you knew that the only reason it existed was for this one purpose?

qbrass on Nov 13, 2016 [–]

If that solved the ethical dilemma, they'd make humans for that purpose.

vblord on Nov 14, 2016 | [–]

haha. Great point.

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