Still feels icky to make that decision for another creature. I know people have to do it for pets all the time and I’ve had to do so myself but I still second guess that all the time… I wish there was a way to communicate with them to find out what they want.
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoThat’s what it’s called when it’s inhumane to let them live after an experiment.
Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so…
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Still wouldn’t call that a sacrifice… That’s a mercy killing.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s archaic euphemistic jargon, and that’s why you generally don’t see it used outside of the niche.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
At first I thought it was a bad translation but the site says they’re HQed in Chicago so that seems a little unlikely (but not impossible). I wondered if it was the technical term (similar to how “spontaneous abortion” is actually a technical term for a miscarriage, shockingly), but I didn’t immediately find anything, but I also didn’t look super hard.