Black People, even dead, are not Lab-pigs

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO — THE BLACK BOX — 2020

Emotional, strong, even powerful, and yet intellectually perilous science fiction. Imagine you can extract from a brain (if it is only the brain and not the muscles and the bones too) what makes someone that very particular someone, hence their “mental” essence, and then you can keep it digitalized on a hard disk of some sort in the cloud if you want. Imagine you can transfer this digitalized mental essence to another body and this other body becomes the new vessel of the digitalized mental essence of the first individual.

First of all, it is impossible to do this as of today and probably for quite some time still. Second, it is unethical to use the body or a brain-dead person as a vessel to contain the mental essence of some other body plain dead at the time of the shift. How can you get the consent of the one or the other? Impossible in the film since the first person is dead, and the second person is brain-dead. Neither can say yes or no. Why not transfer that mental essence of this dead person number one into a chimpanzee, so that his mummy can play with it as a family pet? No problem of consent or disagreement. Animals have not reached the age of reason and cannot say yes or no to anything imposed onto them in labs or nature. Why not endow dogs with a — Christian of course…