One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection::One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.

  • @1984
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    18 months ago

    It’s a weird take to think it’s fine to trade pig lives for human lives? I think it’s absolutely brutal and shows how cruel humans are to other species once again. And we are not even ashamed of it.

    • @Nevoic@lemm.ee
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      18 months ago

      The take in isolation isn’t weird, but if they’re not vegan it is weird, because it’s inconsistent.

      Saying “it’s not okay to trade pig lives for human lives” while also saying “it’s okay to trade pig lives because bacon tastes yummy” is the weird/inconsistent part.

      I’m not hard sold one way or another on trading pig lives for human lives. I’ve been a human supremacist my whole life (only been vegan for 3 years), and I recognize I might have a bias that needs to be unlearned. It’s possible that pig lives are worth the same as human lives and I’m just bigoted against them.

      I’m still vegan though, it’s incredibly easy to recognize that pig lives are worth more than taste pleasure. The harder questions come in when we’re talking life/death instead of just sensory pleasure.

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        8 months ago

        People are inconsistent all the time, that’s why I don’t think it’s weird at all. Almost all humans buy meat but almost all humans would be unable to work in a slaughter house and see what happens there.

        It’s only weird if you don’t understand how the human mind works.

        • @Nevoic@lemm.ee
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          18 months ago

          Or if you view the human mind as weird generally. Our intelligence affords us an unusual ability to be inconsistent in our ideologies, other creatures can’t normally hold that kind of dissonance in their head due to lack of complexity.

          So yeah I was calling the inconsistency weird. There’s this weird interim between primal stupidity and enlightened intelligence where humans are, where we’re able to reason about the world and can still choose to be illogical or inconsistent.

    • @Redrum714@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      That’s how life works, nothing weird about it if you’re not sheltered and overly sensitive

      • @1984
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        18 months ago

        Maybe you are overly cruel?