Where sceptics fail | with Alex O'Connor
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Potential of Engineering Animals That Don't Suffer
The potential of like engineering animals in some way that they wouldn't feel suffering is that just a kind of philosophical thought experiment or is that something that's on the table and what do you make of that? The closest real life instantiation of this is something like lab grown meat people like to call it is this an animal not really. If there's no suffering involved i just kind of don't see a problem might be a little more complicated with human beings, he says. "I made a video not long ago which upset quite a lot of well i sayquite a lot of egans when i said that animals non-humans probably don't have a right to life"
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