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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. Blending Mice & Men? by RexDevious · · Score: 0, Troll

    Aw, I thought this was gonna be an article about us Democrats...

  2. President Chimera by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey they crossed a bush with a human and we elected it President. Unfortunately the IQ fell somewhere between the two. Better luck next time. Just proves gene splicing is a tricky business.

  3. Re:Culture by dsanfte · · Score: 0, Troll

    When the creature dies, all its memories of "hardship" stored in its neural net melt into the same pile of amino-acid goop. It's irrelevant.

    As for dehumanizing, I think we all need some humility forcibly smacked into us by reality now and then.

    --
    occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb