Animal-Human Hybrids

[Loeln]

<a href='http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... meras.html' target='_blank'>"Animal Human Hybrids Spark Controversey"</a><br><br>Article would be here, were it the quote would work.

[Dr. Doog]

hmm.<br><br>I think that that's really cool, and that they should work on chimeras.

[Gizensha]

I'd say "Haven't we already covered this" except I think I posted the BBC News version to the IRT forum rather than this one.

[Zaaphod]

Not sure about the ethics of all this, but it's quite interesting.<br>

[Caoimhin]

O yeah I heard about this on NPR... Or something similar.

[Bocaj Claw]

<!--QuoteBegin-Dr. Doog+Jan 25 2006, 09:30 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Dr. Doog @ Jan 25 2006, 09:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> hmm.<br><br>I think that that's really cool, and that they should work on chimeras. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Tucker, you fool! You messing with alchemical forces you can't comprehend! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Steve the Pocket]

<!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Jan 25 2006, 10:21 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Jan 25 2006, 10:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'd say "Haven't we already covered this" except I think I posted the BBC News version to the IRT forum rather than this one. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Actually we did. I believe it was Burning Sheep who created the topic. And as usual I can't be bothered to find it, but no one cares either.<br><br>Interesting that the article mentions "mice with human brains." Someone's been watching a bit too much (or, alternately, too little) "Pinky and the Brain," I think.<br><br>Funny that this is in the news. I would have thought dangerous, controversial experiments like this would be going on in hidden underground labs away from the prying eyes of the public. At least, so says the novel I'm working on.

[Joe3210]

I suggest watching that 1984 Bagi film. An anime which seemed like porn when I shown it to the friends I had, but it's not. The message behind the movie seems to cover my feelings behind this film.<br><br><br><a href='http://www.macrophile.com/~wolf/bagi.html' target='_blank'>linky</a>

[Muninn]

I posted <a href='http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/ ... ials/2312/' target='_blank'>this video</a> in my journal, but I think it fits in with this topic somehow.

[Rooster]

It is an interesting one this. At what point does a human/animal hybrid become advanced enough to warrent "rights"? And who decides when an animal is intelligent enough to get the same rights are people? I mean, what tests will they have? Wait until they can beat us at chess?<br><br><br>I may not believe in "God", but I do believe that we shouldn't try to become him.

[Gizensha]

<!--QuoteBegin-Rooster+Jan 26 2006, 11:08 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Rooster @ Jan 26 2006, 11:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> It is an interesting one this. At what point does a human/animal hybrid become advanced enough to warrent "rights"? And who decides when an animal is intelligent enough to get the same rights are people? I mean, what tests will they have? Wait until they can beat us at chess?<br><br><br>I may not believe in "God", but I do believe that we shouldn't try to become him. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Well, if it makes you feel better, the people proposing the attempt to grow human brains in mice were quoted as saying that no-one needed to worry about infringing on the sanctity of human life, because if they started to exhibbit signs of sentience, they could be killed.<br><br>...To which my reaction was "If they exhibbit signs of sentience they need to be upped into a rights category above animal rights. And killing them to avoid the moral question of what rights bracket if they they constitute as belonging to if they display signs of sentience is kinda what I'm worried about here anyway. Though granted before you said that I was more worried about the prospect of a slave race being created."

[Bocaj Claw]

You know, I'm all for science but killing any of the hybrids if they display signs of sentience just smacks of wrongness and hollywood induced paranoia.

[Loeln]

"Bowman's Wolf" :S

[Rooster]

I failed to add the second part of my line, so I'll add it here instead.<br><br>Although I don't believe in God, I believe that we shouldn't try to fill the void. But if we do, we have to live with the consequences as makers should, and not destroy it and start again.<br><br>After all, if God is real, and hasn't wiped us clean out, then what right have we to our creations?<br><br>You live with your mistakes, it's the only way you learn

[CoreyFox]

Wow. Real life anthros!