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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?

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
He was a monk, after all. Breeding mammals is not something that celibacy-bound people usually do.

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breakfastburrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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