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Whats an unethical or dangerous experiment that you would like to see performed or perform (if it werent for the ethics/danger) (lemmy.world)

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For me "How long could I get away with driving like an ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE all the time before I lost my licence or had an accident." Speed limits, red lights, stop signs... forget them all. Every day I have to drive sensibly and obey the law because without my licence I dont have a job, and every day I see at least one person driving like an absolute moron and I wonder...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

How many clowns can you fit inside an unmodified VW Bug if survivability is no longer a concern.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cloning is the first one that comes to mind for me. If you could somehow avoid the horrors of the process of learning a reliable methodology the result wouldn't necessarily be unethical.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

We can do sheep. And thus pretty much know how that would go for humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What happens if you put a lightbulb in your ass

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nothing until you start rubbing your feet on the carpet to generate current to light it up.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Forgot the name, but the one where they had a mock prison where half the subjects were guards with special treatment and the other half were prisoners. Though I'd be trying to figure out how to eliminate the whole "power corrupts" stuff, not just sitting back watching what happens as people die.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd want to know how many people would continue eating meat if they had to kill the animal themselves after getting trained how to do it. Or as an alternative instead of doing the killing yourself being physically present while someone else does it for you and you have to watch, smell, and hear them prepare it for you.

Is it really unethical though?

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