Isn't it clear that genetically modifying non-human organisms by giving them human genes, or creating human-animal chimeras or hybrids, would be immoral in itself? Why must we accept this as inevitable ("the time is quickly coming" "within our lifetimes")?
I do not want to live in a world with genetically altered, quasi-human "pets, slaves, and others." Can nothing stop this? Or do we have to wait for the Allah-Fubar Jihadists to stop it for us?
Ha. That would be ironic, hey? Allah-Fubar saving us from Humano-Fubar?
And yet, why must it be inevitably immoral?
My guess is if it is in our power to do something, there is a 99% likelihood that someone will try it. There is some kind of inevitability involved in that (akrasia). The more difficult question, however, is not about inevitability. It asks, when anything happens--inevitable or not--whether it ought to have happened, and when it does happen, to insist that it is wrong.
I confess I see something beautiful in Cyrano and it isn't his nose.