Brain-fart. Sorry, folks.
Once again, Tom the Dancing Bug shows the way: Ethical Issue Raised by Man-Cow Organ Slave.
Make them slaves and implant them with remote-control discipline/kill devices. Put them to work in industry and around the house. Engineer them so that they can’t reproduce on their own. Employ rigorous intelligence and personality testing and destroy any creature that seems too bright or maladaptive. Seems easy enough to me.
[bartsimpson]God, schmod! I want my monkey-man![/bartsimspon]
One can have numerous concerns about the ethical questions concerning human-animal hybrids, but consider this. Those who are capable of producing these hybrids, read corporations, will have a tremendous impact and control of the economy. Those humans, who for whatever reason have "little value"for society, making minimum wage only, or only educated enough for menial labour, will become further marginalized, as their function can be taken up by those without basic human rights.
I expect that this hybridization will happen, amid claims that there will be great benefit for humanity.
Only remember this. The quality of life for the average working man has markedly deteriorated over the past 30 years. This is as a result of automation and computerization, which supposedly would reduce the 40 hour week of the working man and free him from harsh environments. Yeah right. It now takes two breadwinners to support a working class home, and one of them usually works in excess of 50 hours per week.
The benefit of automation and computerization has acrued to the rich whose lifestyles have improved tremendously, due to cheap labour cost and computerization, which allows the rich to control to the minutest detail with the help of the working man’s wife in the office, his production and environment. It seems that with every technological advance the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Yeah, call me a Ludite
I think that the idea that a human-animal hybrid will necessarily not retain all of his/her mental faculties is not one that should necessarily come true. As we have never created such a hybrid, for all we know, it may be just as intelligent as anyone, maybe it will be MORE intelligent than average. Who can say?
Maybe a human-cheetah hybrid will gain plusses from both sides… the intelligence of a human, the speed of a cheetah. Maybe a human-dolphin will create the first humans capable of spending their lives in an aquatic environment enabling us to make practical use of the world’s oceans.
I think that the automatic suspicion that this hybrid will be something on the leval of a mentally retarded human is silly. We have no idea.
I will say this… the vast majority of succesful hybrid animals are sterile. Therefore, the only way to ‘mass-produce’ such creatures will probably be in the lab and thus will never be an economically feasable way to create a new species.
Whattya, nuts???
Don’t you know what happens to people who get those manifestos???
Geez, they forgot about Ted Kaczynski already 8*D
What, like the editors of the New York Times?
He’s right, son–better not risk it. Otherwise, you might go around claiming that Algore won Florida or some such fool thing.