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[pebblerocker]

I had an LJ post to write but it's gone. I thought it up while making a cup of tea, so the best way of getting it back is probably to make another cup of tea and see if I can stare at the spoon in exactly the same way to generate the same thought again.

I also have another post to write which is sure to be politically controversial and unpopular with everyone. Sort of almost on the level of eating babies unpopular.

Oh well, I'll go and make some pants and eat feijoas.

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Pantilones. And feijoas come from Peru don't they? Time to pronounce them differently...

[dr-sponge.livejournal.com]

Be careful with the tea thing, you may soon discover that even slight aberrations in the spoon staring, even due to alterations in the ambient lighting, can lead to the generation of an entirely new set of ideas. Consequently you will become trapped in the hell that is the infinite thought generator that is the cup of tea, and all the myriad of enticing but ultimately unobtainable creative thoughts.

I'm sure your political post can't be unpopular with me, I'm the guy who seriously argued that we ought to do our scientific research on brainless cloned humans, using said cloned brainless humans as baby factories to produce more. Having said that, I'm surprised at the fact that on the few times I mentioned this idea, people have been unnervingly more receptive than I would have first expected...

Re: Pantilones. And feijoas come from Peru don't they? Time to pronounce them differently...

[pebblerocker]

Good old South America, home of feijoas and guavas and yams, and possibly other things as well. Vanilla? Pineapples? Woolly nightshade? Alpacas?

My next cup of tea failed to produce any useful thoughts, but then I did do it when it was dark outside...

I am very much against your idea just because it sounds icky. It's probably logical (we know that humans work perfectly well without their brains, for a start) but it sounds like science fiction in which Something Bad happens.

Re: Pantilones. And feijoas come from Peru don't they? Time to pronounce them differently...

[dr-sponge.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, I think I can actually produce a reasonably sound argument for the proposal, but even so, my gut reaction is one of repulsion, but I have some counter arguments to that. What surprised me is that when I put it to some other people they seemed to lack the automatic repulsion I'd expect.

When analysing Something Bad we need to take into account the opportunity costs and reflect on the Something Bads we are also avoiding... ;P

[pebblerocker]

How about this: Your experiments on brainless clones will produce results that are irrelevant when applied to humans who walk around doing stuff, being exposed to environmental factors outside the clone lab, eating things instead of being fed by IV, and generally being unpredictable and not inert and brainless. Therefore...

...it's still a million times better than testing on beagles, which is not the argument I intended to make, haha!