There's definitely an argument to be made that, you know, what we learned from Dutch famine shows that studies like this are incredibly important. I think in the pregnancy case, you're also giving consent for your fetus, right? So, so it's one of these things where even if you're an altruist, I think that that would be a very strange definition of altruism because you're being altruistic for, for the world, but not for this one specific human who has no say in this whatsoever. And when I was in grad school for psychology, and I needed to do an experiment that had deception, I just, I couldn't get it approved. It wasn't even
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