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10/06/09
As mentioned below, the only thing this might change is who gets the patents.
-Kle.
10/05/09
I do not like religion even my own.
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As for the research itself, I can only hope that it continues elsewhere, and it probably does. Every line of research needs to be studied if we are to improve the general human condition significantly.
And it will amuse me when the United States starts freely using treatments derived from the very research they screamed to be banned... :)
10/06/09
The logic is you need to be baptised to clense you of the original sin [rolleyes], then when you have a say in the mater you can choose to reject it later.
Of course, most just go with the flow.
10/05/09
But seriously, there is a "Human Fertilisation and Embrology Authority"- and this organization actually issued licenses to perform this type of research!?
Dear Scientists of the World:
I know you like to play God and all, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Cut it out, right now. Seriously, before you guys destroy life as we know it.
10/05/09
(I know it's already been done in the comments, but it really seemed to fit here)
10/05/09
But who will take down Manticore now???
And here I thought Jessica Alba was the shape of things to come...
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HFEA: "You am play gods! You grasp exceed grasp!"
project to cure heart disease and project to cure Parkinson's after a transgenic eats off their arms: "Me am play gods!"
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Ultimately we're just an offshoot of monkeys so not really so far removed from them as we'd like to believe.
Call me crazy but the way I see it none of us asked to be created or asked to be here so whether it's through the reproductive process of two individuals choosing to mate, or genetically engineered in a lab or created in a factory out of circuits and microprocessors (once the technology gets sufficiently advanced to create sentient AI) I don't really see a heck of a lot of difference, we all still get plopped into life and have to learn to deal with it as best we can.
I'm not saying these guys are saints with altruistic motives, I'm just saying there's mutliple perspectives to look at any situation.
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10/06/09
Alternatively, you could do some test to see how much they value life themselves.
Put them in a group with more of their own species, have a distinct advantage to them if they kill another. (say, more food). Make sure theres no downside to doing this. (admitable, this is hard..groups are stronger, after all).
Make sure they are both able (physicaly) and mentaly to kill another of their kind to get such an advantage.
Then, if they DONT do it, we should value their life as much as they do.
Of course though, this would be an amazingly hard test to set up. The difference between "unwilling" and "not understanding" would have to be filtered out.
10/06/09
Theres no reason to think that if your more similar, and can emphasis or even communicate more, you wont stick up for their rights more.
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So, pretty much like the current day, then?
-Kle.
08/14/09
That's not to say it couldn't make a good TV series in the right hands.
08/14/09
I don't see how it could be an ongoing series, though. Seems more suited to a limited series with a finite number of episodes.
08/15/09
If you know any people old enough to have been actual hippies, that's pretty much the way it worked then, too. Plus, the women tended to do all the work, while the men laid around all day getting high.
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I've always found it kind of hilarious the way most hippie communes quickly began to resemble fringe Mormon extremist compounds, only w/o any firepower.
-Kle.