Green Light for Human/Animal Hybrids

Henneshoe writes "BBC News is reporting that two research facilities have been given the green light to create part human, part animal embryos. According the the report, 'Scientists want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs in a bid to extract stem cells. The embryos would then be destroyed within 14 days.' The decision to allow the embryos was made after research showed that people in large are OK with the idea."

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Re:Public Permission?

[ranton]

First off, I honestly dont believe that removing evil dictators from power is an unethical act. But I do agree that the war was grossly mismanaged. But even though the current government has made mistakes on Iraq, I honestly do not trust public opinion polls to run a war as much as even a slightly misguided administration.

And in your example, public opinion actually was for the war. So in this case you would still have the Iraq war even if our government's decisions were made with public opinion polls. Then we would have soon left without even trying to do our best to rebuild the country (even if our best doesnt seam to be good enough).

But after saying that, it is obvious that any government is going to make mistakes. It is still run by human beings. But for every example of unethical behavior from government officials, I bet you could come up with a dozen unethical behaviors in the private sector.

For example, I dont think that the government ran the slave trade in the 1800s. I am pretty sure that it was the people that ran it. Too bad that the evil government tried to tell the people what was good for them and outlawed it.