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Among pressing ethical concerns are whether brain organoids can feel pain or become conscious—and how would we know?

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

“Fuck ethics” and “don’t kill children” are mutually incompatible statements.

You believe in ethics, you just put the line at a different point than other people. Maybe that means exactly what the article says - our society needs to start discussing the situation to see where we want to draw the line.

And don’t get me wrong, I agree with you in general. Humans tend to be TOO worried about ethics, for example GMO plants are generally quite harmless despite being outright banned in large swaths of the world.