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Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

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Re: Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

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This reminds me of the movie The Island where they cloned people as organ backups https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/ .

If you want to explore the concept further, I suggest you watch the movie "Never Let Me Go" (2010). The premise is very similar, apart from the fact there's no secret or conspiracy about it, children are just grown to become sacrificial organ donors, and since it's socially accepted, there's no way out of it. Fair warning: it's pretty depressing.

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Re: Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

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post #8

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Yes, the FDA will insert itself to regulate medicine wherever it can. For example, the FDA has been pushing to regulate diagnostic tests as medical devices. It’s funny how Americans surrender medical autonomy to the government but draw a strict line in the sand in other issues

Everyone who isn’t an HCP “surrenders” medical autonomy since not everyone pretends to know better than the experts.

HCPs love the idea of declaring autonomy as outdated, or problematic, or even better, an HCP behavior itself. Dream on.

Re: Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

#524
post #174

This reminds me of the movie The Island where they cloned people as organ backups https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/ .

If you want to explore the concept further, I suggest you watch the movie "Never Let Me Go" (2010). The premise is very similar, apart from the fact there's no secret or conspiracy about it, children are just grown to become sacrificial organ donors, and since it's socially accepted, there's no way out of it. Fair warning: it's pretty depressing.

I second this recommendation. And "The Island" is 100% the Hollywood / Michael Bay version of that story.

Re: Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

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post #370

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We basically have at least as many or more bacteria cells in us than human cells so are we actually a microbe?

Ask the speciesist ;)

Hey I'm not speciesist, some of my best friends are bacteria!

Re: Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

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We generally consider killing something to be treating it badly.

I don't know who 'we' is, but society in general disagrees. People eat meat with a clear conscience.

Both can be true. Everyone considers sweatshop child abuse to be bad, but we still buy things that people know were produced in those conditions. We have a clear conscience because we just don't think about it too much.
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