Our adolescent Star Trek debates about what is a "person" are about to jump into the real world. We figure we know that ulcans, Romulans and Klingons possess "personhood" because --- why? Because they can reason and communicate? Because they can love, and fear, and choose? Because they are morally responsible for their actions due to the exercise of reason and self-consciousness? Then what about chimps operating with human brain cells?
Class, discuss.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Like The Island of Doctor Moro (sp?).
"Are we not men?"
Creepy.
To: Mrs. Don-o
It would seem to me that a primate that became self-aware, might find his world at once a very frusting place to live. Not fitting in with humans or his own kind, it might be a very cruel reality. I am not convinced this would be the outcome if 'some' human cells were cloned in. When our knowledge increases a bit more, it might be.
3 posted on
07/14/2005 8:06:25 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Reparations, I smell reparations in the future.
4 posted on
07/14/2005 8:08:38 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(If a democrats lips are moving, they're lying.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I hope they wont be use as suicide bombers...
neither be converted to Islam...
5 posted on
07/14/2005 8:08:51 PM PDT by
ChristianDefender
(Expand Gitmo... build another kind in North Pole...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I don't really see what's so bad about giving apes more intelligence. Well, except we already know how this story ends:
6 posted on
07/14/2005 8:10:28 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: Mrs. Don-o
There's the case against stem cell research. This can only lead to more Democrats.
8 posted on
07/14/2005 8:13:37 PM PDT by
Ukiapah Heep
(Shoes for Industry!)
Pretty soon monkeys will be running for Congress ...
... and winning ...
(hell, if people will elect Henry Waxman, any primate's got a shot.)
9 posted on
07/14/2005 8:15:48 PM PDT by
jayhorn
(when i hit the drum, you shake the booty.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
This can't be good
11 posted on
07/14/2005 8:42:30 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. . - Voltaire)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Anybody remember the Heinlein story, "Jerry Was a Man"?
I don't think creating a new class of intelligent anthropoids is a good idea. If they are self-aware enough to realize that they are captives and what that really means ... then they would in effect be slaves. That was outlawed a few years ago, as I recall.
12 posted on
07/14/2005 8:47:01 PM PDT by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(Kelo must GO!! ..... http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
To: Mrs. Don-o
13 posted on
07/14/2005 9:20:52 PM PDT by
dsc
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