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Human-Animal Hybrids Fail

SailorSpork writes "Fans of furries and anime-style cat girls will be disappointed by the news that attempts to create human animal hybrids have failed. Experiments by British scientists to create embryonic stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs had raised ethical concerns, but the question of how we would treat sub-humans will have to wait until we actually figure out how to make them."

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  1. Re:Just a thought by zappepcs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Want to hear something unethical? Jobs are being lost in the US, manufacturing has moved to countries where it's ethical to treat workers and the ecology in ways that would be illegal in North America. I hate to tell you this, but good men did do something and they called it outsourcing, and saw that it was good, so they did it some more. Now there are few of those good men left, corrupted by their own success they forgot about ethics. Sadly, stockholders rarely, if ever, give a shit about ethics.

    Who can do something about it? Stockholders! When it becomes financially prudent to be ethical, those good men will come back to life. Government legislators can't even police their own behavior, never mind the behavior of people that buy stuff for them. The love of money is not the root of all evil, but you typically find both attributes in the same persons.

    So, anyone have any idea how to motivate stockholders?