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Article #1186Re: The Ethics of Species Engineering ( WAS: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids?)
From: David Honig
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 22:51
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 22:51
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In article <4909@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> drbob@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert H. Woodman) writes: > One of the things that I have noticed about scientists is that they >are perceived by the public as being so focused on the science that they >ignore any ethical problems. The ethical problems arise when generals, politicians, and unelected policymakers *employ* the knowledge that scientists find. Finding that chimps and humans can breed, and measuring the properties of the resulting creature, is different from, e.g., proposing to raise a breed of slaves. And I agree with others that such a hybrid would be very interesting. Uranium fissions; some organophosphates irreversibly bind acetylcholinesterase. These are facts. What you do with them is subject to moral evaluation, but discovering them is not. -- David A. Honig ``Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.'' ---Ghandi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!honig From: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: The Ethics of Species Engineering ( WAS: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids?) Keywords: ethics Message-ID: <270A6B70.15884@ics.uci.edu> Date: 3 Oct 90 22:51:28 GMT References: <4904@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1990Sep23.163322.28379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <4909@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig) Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 21