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 However, this is part of a general [[embodiment]] trend in modern [[philosophy]]: It's a central issue in [[philosophy of body]], [[philosophy of action]], [[eco-anarchism]], [[animal rights]], and [[Great Ape personhood|hominid personhood]]. It relies on [[empathic integrity]]: having high empathy for things like oneself, and low or no empathy for things that are simply abstractions or [[ideology]].
-One application of this principle is the rejection of [[animal experiment]]s and [[vivisection]] as being for the [[public good]]: the abstract "advance of [[science]]" or "improving of [[medicine]]" or "helping the [[economy]]" are all rejected as valid [[moral reasoning]]s because economies, sciences, medicines, are only assumed to relieve [[suffering]], but bodies do most definitely suffer in the processes involved.
+One application of this principle is the rejection of [[animal experiment]]s and [[vivisection]] as being for the [[public good]]: the abstract "advance of [[science]]" or "improving of [[medicine]]" or "[[Uneconomic growth|helping the economy]]" are all rejected as valid [[moral reasoning]]s because economies, sciences, medicines, are only assumed to relieve [[suffering]], but bodies do most definitely suffer in the processes involved.
 Most critiques of [[mass movement]]s and [[cult]]s and [[military training]] focus on the confusion with the group entity that is deliberately created by the group's conditioning of the individual to identify overly with groups.