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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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I'm wondering, how come studying mice breeding was considered lewd when humans had already been breeding a variety of livestock (and selecting traits at this) for thousands of years?
presumably just status quo bias, we've always done this so that's obviously fine, but this NEW thing is horrendous and must never be done
I think it was just the idea of this friar watching mice fuck seemed pornographic in a way. I don’t think maintaining mice colony was the issue, it was the sex.
He was a monk, after all. Breeding mammals is not something that celibacy-bound people usually do.
Organized religion isn't always rational.