For one thing humans take a LONG time to rear to sexual maturity compared to most other mammals (we are a highly neotenous species) So your imaginary human farm could be as evil and monstrous as you want and the time horizons would still keep it from workinghttps://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1229267548300021760 …
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(The flip side of this is people who don't work with animals don't realize how fucked up the process of creating a new animal breed is, and it relies on the fact that most animal "generations" are a year or less)
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If I get a cat with an interesting shaped face I can burn through ten generations of breeding that cat's kittens with each other (and throwing away all the incest-generated kittens with genetic diseases) and create a new breed well within the original's lifetime
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The Onion had that joke article about this, how human babies are so useless compared to any other animal A one-year-old cat, dog, horse, etc are all ready to survive on their own in the wild, a one-year-old human can't even feed itself
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Not even them surely
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The Egyptian Pharaohs maybe
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Well, their bleeding speed improved dramatically.
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Lmao.
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Yep... inbreeding is a bad idea. At least where humans are concerned. Genetic diversity leads to better outcomes.
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Dawkins is just a huge Dune fan, that’s all
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Yeah: as a human, I kind of like having a functional jaw.
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