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longstocking  ·  3758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Zoo Animals and Their Discontents

I liked this one best:

    “Sometimes a scientist will ask me, ‘What are your data points?’ ” he said. “But if we accept that animals are self-aware beings and have emotions, they are no longer data points. No amount of data points will explain identity.”

Kind of ironic how something so basic is often lost to people in the sciences.