Researchers in England have discovered a way to create a human- animal hybrid:
A team has grown hybrid embryos after injecting human DNA into eggs taken from cows’ ovaries, which had most of their genetic material removed.
The embryos survived for three days and are intended to provide a limitless supply of stem cells to develop therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and spinal cord injuries, overcoming a worldwide shortfall in human embryos.
To simply play around with human life, experimenting with it like a lab rat that can be easily discarded, is the definition of absolute moral bankruptcy.
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Thanks for the info. God Bless
I think you are being disingenuous. I doubt scientists play at their work, or that this is idle curiosity on their part; I feel sure they work hard to reduce suffering and early death. I think a few cells are clearly worth sacrificing to prevent the early death and pain of many people. Would you be so quick to criticise them if you knew they were working on a cure for some heinous problem you or one of your family suffered from? Is it moral to deny thousands those benefits for the want of a few cells? Morality is subject to very wide ranging interpretation, it is dangerous to assume one has the only valid version.
“Conceptualizer,” thanks for your comments. I would disagree with you though about the “wide-ranging interpretation” of morality. For example, many radical Islamists believe it is right and even honorable to kill infidels, even innocent women and children. How can you argue that such action is wrong if they’re just exercising a “wide-ranging interpretation” of morality. Of course YOU could call that action wrong and immoral, but isn’t it “dangerous to assume one has the only valid version?”
That’s silly. In fact, it is much more dangerous to say that there is no “valid version” at all. That’s moral anarchy… Of course there are absolutes, and creating human life for the purpose of experimentation and then destruction is absolutely immoral, no matter the outcome.
You mention that you think “a few cells are clearly worth sacrificing to prevent the early death and pain of many people,” and on this you and I find common ground. Many cells are worth sacrificing… Umbilical cord blood cells, adult stem cells, and other types of cells whose curative properties show as much, or even more promise than those which are derived when a life is destroyed to extract them. Certainly cells are worth “sacrificing.” But a life is not.
When has it ever been medically ethical to kill one human for the sake of treating another?
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