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https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/musk-brain-chip-company-neuralink-admits-to-killing-8-monkeys-in-experiments/ https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/musk-brain-chip-comp

• echelon 4y ago
  Your comment was dead, but I vouched for it because I wanted to respond. Many research protocols that interface with the brains of animals call for euthanasia. Non-invasive study simply isn't adequate, and most of what we know about the brain comes from dissection and vivisection. In fact, much of animal-based biological research imparts permanent physical trauma on the animals in order to study some disease pathway. They may even be born (or cloned) with immune systems that give them cancer and certain death. Live animal protocols are designed to be as humane and ethical as possible. Lab researchers are taught how to painlessly euthanize rodents, for instance, and there is a lot of reporting and accountability involved. Biological research seeks to make our lives better and to put an end to debilitating diseases and disorders, including ultimately death itself. Another way to look at this is to consider other perspectives: (I mean this in a gentle way and please don't read if you're easily triggered by strong visceral imagery) lions are eating gazelle on the savannah while they are still alive, certain wasp larva eat their hosts from the inside out, orcas play with their food and torture it for hours, primates turn to cannibalism and infanticide, our ancestors had to eat animals and quite possibly cousins, and our sun will eventually boil all of our oceans before the universe itself goes dark. Nature is brutal when it comes to capturing and transforming energy, and physics even more so. These lab protocols, though they may seem macabre, are seeking to extend our knowledge and end suffering in a humane way. Edison's stunt was marketing. Elon's company is attempting to fix broken bodies.