# What animal-human hybrids should be prohibited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 1, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557 "2006-02-01T19:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/41 "2006-02-03T00:29:33Z")
> [@Jeeves](#): > > And, what was that in reference to in the SOTU speech by the president? I am not aware of any controversy over animal human hybrids. The only AHHs that could fit remotely are bacteria modified with human genetic information to produce medicine, such as insulin producing bacteria. > > The questions for debate are: > When should this type of manipulation be prohibited? In other words, how much human genetic information before you have an AHH. > > And, are we in any position for this to become an issue? > Mods, I believe this is GD material, but I apologize if you wish to move it. My impulse is to say that Britney Spears shouldn’t be allowed to bear the children of any human being, but that’s just me being a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/42 "2006-02-03T00:39:57Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > How about if the pig grows the human eyes on its back and gets to keep its natural pig eyes? Better? Naw, let’s just do it wherever they make sirloin steaks and I don’t have to watch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/43 "2006-02-03T01:28:14Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > What, you’re thinking a nice BLT would really hit the spot right about now, also? Okay, confess…you’re really Stephen Colbert, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/44 "2006-02-03T02:47:26Z")
[Pinky] What do you wanna do tonight? [/Pinky] [Brain] We’re going to take over the world. [/Brain] ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/45 "2006-02-03T03:28:13Z")
My thought, after “Wouldn’t it be cool to have a really long neck like a giraffe, ha!” was “Ooh! They made that [glow in the dark rabbit](http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html). What about glow in the dark-people?” I suggested this to my husband and he said “All the better for catching terrorists! They’d be easier to find if they glowed.” So we decided that if you don’t want to glow in the dark you must have something to hide. Otherwise you’d be happy to glow in the dark like other good manimal citizens. Which means that someone opposed to human animal hybrids has something to hide! Possibly we weren’t applying the most thorough standards of logic to the question. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/46 "2006-02-03T03:49:11Z")
God, schmod! I want my monkey-man! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/47 "2006-02-03T03:56:16Z")
Seriously? If they made a human body with only a barely-functioning brainstem, so that it could be harvested for organs, it’d be majorly creepy but I don’t think it’d be unethical. If they made a mouse with a human brain, **then** you’re getting into serious unethical territory. As far as I’m concerned, do whatever you want as long as you’re not causing suffering, especially suffering to creatures with human intelligence. Once you start causing suffering, it becomes problematic; once you’re causing suffering to beings with human cognition, it becomes evil. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/48 "2006-02-03T04:08:28Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Okay, confess…you’re really Stephen Colbert, aren’t you? You’d better hope he’s not. You know how Steve feels about bears. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/49 "2006-02-03T04:11:30Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Seriously? If they made a human body with only a barely-functioning brainstem, so that it could be harvested for organs, it’d be majorly creepy but I don’t think it’d be unethical. Be careful what you ask for. If such a thing were created, it might get elected president. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557/50 "2006-02-03T13:00:40Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > [Pinky] What do you wanna do tonight? [/Pinky] > [Brain] We’re going to take over the world. [/Brain] **Modern Version** : [Brian] What do you wanna do tonight? [/Brian] [Stewie] We’re going to take over the world. [/Stewie] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animal-human-hybrids-should-be-prohibited/342557.md?page=2)