Comments on: The Best Way to Handle Genetic Engineering and Cloning – Part II http://www.boldlygo.org/the-best-way-to-handle-genetic-engineering-and-cloning-part-ii Science Fiction, Philosophy, and the Future... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:32:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joshua http://www.boldlygo.org/the-best-way-to-handle-genetic-engineering-and-cloning-part-ii/comment-page-1#comment-78 Joshua Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:05:43 +0000 http://boldlygo.org/blog/the-best-way-to-handle-genetic-engineering-and-cloning-part-ii/#comment-78 Torturing terrorists is usually done to gain information to save the lives of many people. What is a species but a group of people (I don't think that the human species has any intrinsic value - humans have value, humanity doesn't. But I suspect that opinion is an entire debate in itself). I hesitate to appeal to future technologies to solve problems, but perhaps we will soon be able to simulate enough of the human genome and cellular functions that, in addition to in vitro work and animal models, actually introducing mutations into living humans will be unnecessary. Torturing terrorists is usually done to gain information to save the lives of many people. What is a species but a group of people (I don’t think that the human species has any intrinsic value – humans have value, humanity doesn’t. But I suspect that opinion is an entire debate in itself).

I hesitate to appeal to future technologies to solve problems, but perhaps we will soon be able to simulate enough of the human genome and cellular functions that, in addition to in vitro work and animal models, actually introducing mutations into living humans will be unnecessary.

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