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How is foreign aid any different?

General consensus I've seen seems to be distance, but that's honestly seems to be more of a (neuro)biological issue than a moral conundrum. We have tremendous difficulty empathizing with creatures outside our "monkeysphere," basically. Kind of an out of sight, out of mind thing. It's arguable that it's immoral -- should implies can, and all that, and it's pretty easily demonstrated on a statistical level that humans in aggregate have some trouble (understatement!) with extending moral coverage outside their in-group -- but it's certainly not moral, either.

S'kinda how we seem to put less moral emphasis on things with long term rather than short term consequences. We're just not really built to think that way. We can, but it takes extra effort and usually some sort of training (though not necessarily explicit training -- passive socialization can manage it, ferex) for it.

Mind you, all that really means is that we need to figure out how to counter those sort of prolectivities, but that's one if those "continuing projects" (parts of) our species has been working on since, like, before recorded history. Not there yet! Still working on it.

Re: Low resource testing, there are some programs and suchlike for throttling performance (I regularly use Battle Encoder Shirase to keep things from chewing up entire CPUs, ferex), which might let you at least simulate it, to some degree or another.

Might be able to set up a virtual machine of some sort, too, I guess -- something akin to DOSBox, just more versatile. Don't actually have any clue whatsoever how to go about it, but I'd guess it's possible. Somehow

Don't... don't they already patent specific fruits? Like, the gene-modded ones? Or were trying to, or something. Patenting the specific techniques or whatever for creating a particular breed of fruit. Pretty sure they've been doing that.

Eh, some of them can be effectively finished -- if they're "solvable" (perfect play guarantees 100% victory rate), then someone capable of solving it is more or less done. Most people won't reach that point, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen

Now I'll be skinned alive by Amazon for e-books, but whatever

You could probably stick copious amounts of fanfiction or free stuff on there instead. Just sayin'

Pretty sure there's like, converters or something laying around the internet.

Anyway, not really been able to watch. Not sure how fast DMW's going... has th'yandere chick showed up yet? Formaldehyde line yes/no? Honestly, I just want to know how that comes off (heh) animated. Too lazy to find out through other means than Toonami, though.

Also super monk. Hoping it gets to the super monk.

Happens t'me pretty often, that. One day I'll find out what causes it, so I can stop it. Because it sucks. Suspect dehydration or allergies, but blazes if I actually know.

Of course, I'd like to end a potential flame war here; but I just wanted to clarify my context.

Ah, perhaps "involved" was inappropriate, I guess, to better clarify my question -- the better sentence would be "millions of lives weren't ended for stem cell research, to the best of my knowledge."

If a significant number of individuals were aborting for the purpose of contributing to the study, that would be a considerably different kettle of ethical fish, but if the research was utilizing and not incintivizing... well. Great deal (most?) of medical science is and was founded (initially, if not in modern studies) in the study of cadavers, and I can't really see much of an ethical difference between the two practices. To have problems with one and not problems with the other is perhaps an inconsistency.

Guess I'm trying to point out the separation between embryonic stem cell research and abortion practices, especially cases of the latter where the reason isn't medical. Which is mostly moot since we've got better practices nowadays, so eh. Anyway, call it the resource scavenging hat -- plenty of material, swaths of it the cause of which doesn't care what happens to it, just throwing it out, so to speak is... wasteful. Utilizing it is a bit macabre, but so is dissecting corpses to better our fellow man.

Thank you for clarifying your position, though. I was actually wondering if people (however defined) were having their lives taken expressly for the purpose of stem cell research. Thought I would have heard of that before it it'd been a non-isolated incident, heh.