: I feel that they're not opposed nowadays, maybe 100 years ago. We have the technology and the knowledge, don't you think?I do yes but if someone came to me and said "I think I've got a cure for cancer, I'm within 85% of a margin of probability so if it is used by a human and they die the cure will not get out and public outrage will mean the whole thing will have to be shelved, I could try it on an animal with a close genetic make up and there is the guarantee that that animal will never be in pain"
I'd think long and hard about saying it was wrong. I dont like the irrationalism of the animal rights movement, some scientists are genuinely trying to improve society's lot.
There's a lingering luddism and nihilist destructiveness about the whole thing. That said it's a profession I for one couldnt engage in it would turn my stomach but I dont know if I could kill people on command so I wont join the army either.
: Good question. It'interesting that the market press in just as false as the old soviet state press.
The essential choice is between a privately owned and publicly owned command economy. The privately owned CC is intrinsically undemocratic, unless you believe all those lies about the market responding to peoples wishes, even then it only grants the wishes of the frustrated consumer not the frustrated producers (fucking towered over by his crabbed huff of a moody shit boss), while the publicly owned one can be either autocratic, Russia, China, Cuba, or democratic, New Deal US, Sweden, and can even become the highest form of democracy, Paris Commune, soviets, Revolutionary Spain.
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