No, I think a more similar situation would be if your boss said "Go ahead and program anytime you want. Just don't crash the system during company hours when you are getting paid for it."
I think you could develop a great program. Do some initial programming and testing during the day when you are getting paid. If you see some promise in the code you have written go ahead and stay after and do some tests that might crash the system, on your own time of course.
"They'll lose their funding if they kill any embryos, so they're not going to do anything that could even remotely harm them."
Plus, if researchers stick to the line of 60 cells, there is no chance of destroying an embryo. Any research that will destroy an embryo will not get funding from the start.
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No, I think a more similar situation would be if your boss said "Go ahead and program anytime you want. Just don't crash the system during company hours when you are getting paid for it."
I think you could develop a great program. Do some initial programming and testing during the day when you are getting paid. If you see some promise in the code you have written go ahead and stay after and do some tests that might crash the system, on your own time of course.
"They'll lose their funding if they kill any embryos, so they're not going to do anything that could even remotely harm them."
Plus, if researchers stick to the line of 60 cells, there is no chance of destroying an embryo. Any research that will destroy an embryo will not get funding from the start.