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Blending Mice and Men

Posted by michael on from the need-a-brain-for-my-master dept.

An anonymous reader sends in this piece about chimeras - not the ones with a THAC0 of 11, but a more general term meaning any multi-creature hybrid. A comprehensive look at the moral and scientific issues surrounding this area of biotech.

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  1. Morals? Wha? by aichpvee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, I don't see how morals come into it. But wtf would you want humans crossed with mice? To make people with rolling shit?

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  2. Re:it's a new age by dsanfte · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can you vegitarians just eat your own dead skin and fingernail clippings, or something? Maybe induce lactation and drink your own breast milk? Because that would be grand. You wouldn't be harming any other creatures that way.

    Conservation of energy states you'd suffer a net loss of fluids and calories and die anyway, but at least you could die with a clear conscience.

    Something to think about anyway. I hear that skin around your fingernails is actually somewhat tasty.

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  3. pesky, pesky ethics by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If the brains look as if they are taking on a distinctly human architecture a development that could hint at a glimmer of humanness [...]

    - such as making a conscious decision to imprison, mutilate, vivisect, shock, drug, kill, slice, dice and eat "other" mice?

    [...] they could be killed, he said.

    Ah, whew. For a moment I was worried they were being unethical or something.