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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

He was a monk, after all. Breeding mammals is not something that celibacy-bound people usually do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Organized religion isn't always rational.