Frank Herbert: in my book I created the Tleilaxu axolotl tanks to show how this society violently used women and their bodies for their own selfish gains

Some CEO: Finally, we created the axolotl tanks from the Dune novels!

I think the problem with our world is not the lack of children, but the lack of good parents.

I remarked the previous time this Telegraph article came up that I don’t believe Professor Anna Smajdor (who is a philosopher and not a physician) was sincerely endorsing the idea of whole-body gestational donation (WBGD). The key line in the Telegraph article is this:

Prof Smajdor argues that there is no moral difference in such circumstances between organ donation and surrogacy.

This makes it seem to me like Smajdor is really just trying to comment on the ethics of organ donation by imagining something obviously horrifying that would follow from what she considers to be the same rationale. Indeed, Smajdor’s article as written (which you can download here — I will note that I have only read it in part) concludes with this passage:

What I put forward here can be viewed as a thought experiment on one hand. But if we regard WBGD as being clearly outrageous, this suggests we have some uncomfortable questions to answer about the future of cadaveric organ donation. On the other hand, if WBGD is viewed as a straightforward means of facilitating safer reproduction, and avoiding the moral problems of surrogacy, we should be ready to embrace it as a logical and beneficial extension of activities that we already treat as being morally unproblematic.

…So I dunno, it just bothers me that we’d be taking a headline in the fucking Telegraph at face value.

Don’t they know this is a bad idea? That’s how beached babies are made. Kojima was right all along.

How about adoption? What is this disgusting human obsession with procreation. You’re not that special John and Jane, your genes don’t really need to survive. Millions of kids rot in orphanages, but better make new ones. Evolve the world with your kindness, not your egocentric desire to have offspring.

Omega Yikes.

Bene Tleilax intensifies