June 21, 2021
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Fay Voshell
First Human/Monkey Embryos Created: A Small Step Toward a Huge Ethical Problem
Tim adds:
We'll all be ruled by damned dirty apes!
Brilliant observation there Fay!
Morality aside, one must worry about what will happen when diseases unique to one species jumps to humans thanks to this. There are things like Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, which does not currently infect human beings. Such diseased could well jump species thanks to this genetic mixing, and we could wind up with a series of horrible plagues.
We are playing with fire.
It's little noticed, but the trans movement is one of the impeti behind the current chimera experiments. There is no reason not to consider transitioning to human/animal hybrids if one can transition from male to female or female to male. Why limit transitioning to those variations of the human being? Why not a chimp/human hybrid? Why not a centaur? Or a mermaid?
I wish I were joking.
Tim adds:
We'll all be ruled by damned dirty apes!
Brilliant observation there Fay!
Morality aside, one must worry about what will happen when diseases unique to one species jumps to humans thanks to this. There are things like Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, which does not currently infect human beings. Such diseased could well jump species thanks to this genetic mixing, and we could wind up with a series of horrible plagues.
We are playing with fire.
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We certainly are. Those people are forgetting the adage that just because something is possible to do doesn't mean that it should be done.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 21, 2021 10:40 AM (7Hd0c)
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Great post! I didn’t knowral of these resources and I’m going to go check them out now!
Posted by: subway surfers at June 24, 2021 03:48 AM (B1kb+)
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Agreed Dana. That's why I mentioned Mary Shelley's novel, which was about hubris and doing something just because you could.
Frankenstein was a brilliant piece of literature, far more complex than the movies they make about it. It should be required reading in high school.
But then in modern high schools they'd probably make the monster a "person of color" and suggest whitey rejected him because he was black, not because he was a stitched together corpse who killed people.
Frankenstein was a brilliant piece of literature, far more complex than the movies they make about it. It should be required reading in high school.
But then in modern high schools they'd probably make the monster a "person of color" and suggest whitey rejected him because he was black, not because he was a stitched together corpse who killed people.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 24, 2021 07:15 AM (06POM)
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