> short lives of borderline starvation before they are eaten
Ah yes, how silly of me to criticize this as a 2 dimensional statement utterly lacking in self-awareness.
Humans have always enjoyed objectively long lives, and mouse lives are objectively short. Relative to what? Let’s not think about that and while we're at it take the implication for granted that length of a life grants it weight.
This is why we have always honored the fact that tortoise lives are more valuable than those of humans after all.
Borderline starvation is definitely not something millions of humans face every day, or something most of humanity faced for most of history.
Being eaten is so horrible that you’re better off being tortured to death in a lab. Thankfully that has never happened to humans in the wild. Meanwhile, dying of war, famine, cancer or diarrhea is comparatively great, which is why using you in a lab would of course be unthinkable.
Mice struggling for food and survival in the wild are totally different from humans struggling for food and survival in the wild, because, see, uh...
That sentiment is a dismissive, incurious oversimplification of the entire existence of other species. It has so many blind spots, and is seemingly oblivious to the fact the same reasoning could be turned on us. If a hard, short, dangerous life justifies putting a creature in a lab, then a large share of humanity, past and present, would qualify for the same.
Ah yes, how silly of me to criticize this as a 2 dimensional statement utterly lacking in self-awareness.
Humans have always enjoyed objectively long lives, and mouse lives are objectively short. Relative to what? Let’s not think about that and while we're at it take the implication for granted that length of a life grants it weight.
This is why we have always honored the fact that tortoise lives are more valuable than those of humans after all.
Borderline starvation is definitely not something millions of humans face every day, or something most of humanity faced for most of history.
Being eaten is so horrible that you’re better off being tortured to death in a lab. Thankfully that has never happened to humans in the wild. Meanwhile, dying of war, famine, cancer or diarrhea is comparatively great, which is why using you in a lab would of course be unthinkable.
Mice struggling for food and survival in the wild are totally different from humans struggling for food and survival in the wild, because, see, uh...
That sentiment is a dismissive, incurious oversimplification of the entire existence of other species. It has so many blind spots, and is seemingly oblivious to the fact the same reasoning could be turned on us. If a hard, short, dangerous life justifies putting a creature in a lab, then a large share of humanity, past and present, would qualify for the same.