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OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids
An anonymous reader writes "The sci-fi movie Splice seems to have scared the Ohio's State Senator Steve Buehrer. The Ohio Senate has passed Sen. Buehrer's bill banning 'the creation, transportation, or receipt of a human-animal hybrid, the transfer of a nonhuman embryo into a human womb, and the transfer of a human embryo into a nonhuman womb.' So much for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Just think of this law as a way of keeping Al Gore out of Ohio... ;)
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This is not a cat-dog or a flying gerbil, but a cross between a sentient being and another animal. If you can't get over the "gee, wouldn't it be cool to create anime-style cat girls" and see what you're really doing, you are morally stunted at the level of a small child. In the best case scenario, you end up with a mostly human (in appearance) hybrid that has some chance of a normal life. In the more likely scenario, you are purposefully creating a deformed, damaged sentient life form that has no hope of a normal life, including no mate of its own kind.
But, it's done in the name of science, so somehow that makes it more noble than it really is and automatically negates the arguments of those who call it playing God...