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I’m sure that’ll go great with capitalism
They'll humane-wash it with some fraud credential they created — like everything else — but the body inside will be some Palestinian, Uyghur, or "other" gulag prisoner; sourced from a fascist pipeline.
It’ll turn into “Soup Is Good Food” by DK or Soylent Green so fucking fast
- inserts Zydrate joke *
A little glass vial? A little glass vial!
I think you meant…
Ahem
Banger book. Been one of my favorites since I was a kid
I believe Larry Niven wrote about this very concept.
If I recall, it seems that while nice in theory, capitalism and less ethical folks become a problem quickly. To be fair though, the same can be said if pretty much any industry.
They want $7500 for an eyeball? No, no, no! I can get you one for $750. Free range, not caged. Good stuff. Mostly legal. Meet me in the dark alley tonight.
I take lungs now, gills come next week.
i seem to recall a scarlett johansson/ewan mcgregor movie about this
The Island? I don't recall it being a big hit, but I enjoyed it.
It starred Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. We could watch them watch paint dry for two hours and it would still be pleasant on the eyes.
I think Kiera Knightley and Andrew Garfield did one with a similar, if less action packed, one.
"Grown without the nueral components for awareness, thought or pain"
Somehow I doubt that
It's not ethics that brought us in our current situation, but the lack of it.
Image a greenhouse where they grow human feet, whole legs, loose eyes and a bunch of hearts next to another greenhouse where they grow arms that wave as you walk past, their fingernails perfectly groomed. You see a bunch of scalps with a youthful head of hair next to some carefully protected brains. Perfect teeth growing row after row. And as you look around you realise how happy people will be with the spare body parts you're growing, and feel a deep form of gratitude your father got you in this new industry because thanks to him you are a rich man with a big house and a big car and a perfect wife.
I mean, sure. Anyone who can grow an entire human body, bit by bit, can assemble a perfect wife. I mean, have a perfect wife.
Or you could replace all your fingers with penis clones and be Edward Penishands
😔
Wtf is this crap from? We have too many bodies donated for science. So much that we can't use them all a few years back.
Good for med students though. Never short on corpses to practice on! Fr. Some students got kicked from uni for desecrating a corpse. They took out the intestines, made a lassoo from it and tried to swing it around.
Some bodies get sold for other forms of testing too…there was a scandal in the USA a while back.
Why am I not surprised that's it's America. Why is it always you man? You okay?
They aren’t ok. Haven’t been for a while.
Flawed from the start really.
ask me again why i want to be cremated.
Been saying this ever since I heard of lab-grown meat. Why would you wait for kidney donation when your own DNA can be used to grow a healthy kidney for transplant.
Kidney 5843B, you have won a trip to the island!
BABE WAKE UP HOMUNCULI JUST DROPPED
Sorry but until capitalism is gone this is just crazy stupid.
The Island awaits you...
Pretty sure there’s a million scifis about humanoids that feel human pain. That hommonculous is old enough to scream if it had a mouth.
Oddly, without the neural component it would be worthless for nearly all drug testing. And since they don't really understand how things like the gut are almost like a second brain, the lack of a neural component will really hamper most things.
Not to mention spontaneous sentience. We're so smart we're dumber than dirt.
I don't see a problem with this.
so cloning people.
Wonder how the so called “pro life folk” will be about this?
yum, ethical long pork and organs.
The problem is that corpses are big business. As horrible as that is.
You're as likely to end up being a crash test dummy for some MIC bomb R&D as you are to be used by a medical student when you "give your body to science"
Didn’t we want to clone ourselves in case we needed a kidney some years back?
Gaza has a ton. ruzzia too.
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