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Author Topic:   Playing God with Neanderthals
Huntard
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Message 14 of 144 (547943)
02-24-2010 5:16 AM
Reply to: Message 13 by slevesque
02-23-2010 10:36 PM


slevesque writes:
I meant birth defect.
My personal opinion being that Neanderthals are humans, I would be against abortion in this situation.
Make up your mind. Do you want it it have a "disgusting life" or not?

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Huntard
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Message 39 of 144 (548044)
02-25-2010 4:00 AM
Reply to: Message 36 by slevesque
02-25-2010 12:55 AM


slevesque writes:
Me saying I was against abortion just meant that this wasn't a moral option in my opinion, so if there was a risk of birth defect during the experiment I wouldn't do it at all.
There's a risk of birth defects with normal sexual reproduction. Let's not do it at all!
(instead of doing it, only to kill 99 foetus's out of 100)
And on what do you base these figures? What if it is 1 in 10.000? Is it ok then? 1 in 10.000.000? Where is the limit?
Edited by Huntard, : Typos

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Huntard
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Message 61 of 144 (548109)
02-25-2010 4:00 PM
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02-25-2010 3:57 PM


Ok, fair enough. Thanks for your replies.
I would say we'd need to be careful though, if it's almost certainly going to have birth defects, I'd say no myself. If it's at reasonable levels, I'm fine with it as well. However, should it develop birth defects even then. I say abort it. No point in bringing something into the world with a birth defect that is basically just a study object. That's hard enough on it already.

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