This was hilarious, but leave the wildlife alone, but especially seals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_finger
Or.. You know.. Contract Seal Finger and donate your amputated finger to science. Win/win
Yeah, then we could maybe figure out what is the microbial cause of seal finger. But seriously, how do we not know what causes seal finger? Can't they just culture it from a seal at an aquarium??
In 1998, Baker, Ruoff, and Madoff that the organism is most likely a species of Mycoplasma called Mycoplasma phocacerebrale.[7] This Mycoplasma was isolated in an epidemic of seal disease occurring in the Baltic Sea.[8]
It's not that we don't know what causes it, and it can be cultured from seals and has been. It's that in order to empirically and categorically say in any way that matters that the organism is definitely the cause of seal finger...
You would need to be culturing a person infected with the disease from whom treatment is being withheld. Either against their will or with their "consent" wouldn't matter. As we know what the disease can lead to, the ethical course of treatment is clear: a bunch of culture ruining antibiotics injected into you. Right away, without delay.
Because asking or even taking advantage of someone declining treatment to assess and write the confirmation study that says "Mycoplasma phocacerebrale definite cause of seal finger" goes against a lot of ethical science limitations.
This is what makes the donating the affected limb of someone who never got care for science post-mortem also work as both a neat joke and ethical loophole. Researchers could accept that gift, ethically.
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing ๐
Pffft. Ethics? What are those? Now quick! Help me strap this dude to that chair before he wakes up! Don't mind the chainsaw.
Holy fuck, I thought this was a joke comment. TIL seal finger is a thing.
Seal finger is no joke. This poor guy has had it his whole life 
Still adorable
What a dick!
he obviously doesn't know
If we go pet him we can make it go away. And we know seal fur is really soft!
Yet this message is in all caps.
"I helped my uncle Jack off a horse."
versus
"I HELPED MY UNCLE JACK OFF A HORSE."
I have a cramp in my chest and this made me laugh which made my chest hurt
Maybe someone who isn't very good at straight lines was trying to draw a heart on him.
Do you know what commas are?
They come and go, they come and go.
The kids think commas are cheugy.
Commas are out; semicolons are in.
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