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THE RISE OF MANIMAL!

timesonline.co.uk — UK scientists get green light for half animal, half human embryos.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 20, 2008

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  • bullcutter, on 05/20/2008, -15/+104"Why is it then considered better to kill a 14 day embryo? They shouldn't be created in the first place."

    Because a 14-day embryo doesn't have a brain, therefore it is incapable of feeling pain, much less any emotion. It cannot think, move, feel. It is certainly not self-aware, conscious, and most certainly does not have a conscience. All these things require months of development.

    This time, the opportunities for advancement in research and our scientific understanding of disease will not be held back by small-minded fearmongers who have relatively little grasp on the importance of this work, its implications, and on what it even biologically means to be human.
  • deepvirus, on 05/20/2008, -5/+92ok ManBearPig is now believable as well as "Island of Dr. Moreau"
  • PinkFloydFan, on 05/20/2008, -4/+66WOW! Humans are, by definition, animals.
  • v1c1ous, on 05/20/2008, -1/+47OH GOD! What has science done? now we have ACTUAL FURRIES!
  • uselessexpert, on 05/20/2008, -7/+46WOW! I can just picture the religious right on this...
    All hell is going to break loose on this one.

  • Fallout911, on 05/20/2008, -10/+45This is great news.
    My grandmother is suffering from Alzheimer's and it's just horrible, any possible cure for this is welcomed.
  • JacksonDane, on 05/20/2008, -0/+35Humans aren't already animals?
  • positron, on 05/20/2008, -3/+34When can I put in my order for a catgirl sex slave?
  • reljicd, on 05/20/2008, -2/+28KRAMER

    I'm tellin ya the pigman is alive. The governments been

    experimenting with pigmen since the fifties.

    Jerry

    Will you stop it. Just because a hospital gets a grant to study

    DNA doesn't mean they are creating a race of mutant pigmen.

    KRAMER

    Oh. Jerry wake up to reality. It's military thing. They're

    probably creating a whole army of pig warriors.

    George

    I wish there were pigmen. You get a few of these pigmen walking

    around I'm looking a whole lot better. Then if somebody wants to

    fix me up at least they could say, "Hey he's no pig-man!"

    Jerry

    Believe me, there'd be plenty of women going for the pig-men. No

    matter what the deformity you'll find some group of perverts

    attracted to it. "Oo that little tail turns me on."
  • inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+27Now I can cross my DNA and sheep DNA without getting funny looks from the neighbors.
  • PropCulture, on 05/20/2008, -2/+27Actually, no. There are not any meat or bones in a 14 day old embryo.
  • inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+25ManBearPig... it's half man.. half bear.. half pig
  • inactive, on 05/20/2008, -21/+44it's all fun and games until manbearpig rapes your grandma in the *****.
  • sockpuppets, on 05/20/2008, -0/+22Are you cereal?
  • romistrub, on 05/20/2008, -9/+28Lesson #1: Opposing scientific progress using unscientific reasoning only serves to make the stupid, stupider.
  • Zippo, on 05/20/2008, -2/+21Exactly... an embryo is just that, an embryo. It is a clump of cells. Eventually, yes, it will become a fetus and eventually a full organism... but an embryo is hardly a human life.
  • aflaks, on 05/20/2008, -9/+28***** the religious right. Any progress society has ever made was due to the defiance of the Religious right.
  • riskybeats, on 05/20/2008, -0/+18Why are you getting dugg down? We are in the animal kingdom. It is usually people who have the god complex and think we are better than everything around us.
  • twiztidsinz, on 05/20/2008, -0/+16Sharks with fricken lasers on their heads
  • smacksaw, on 05/20/2008, -2/+18This could get Chavs to vote since they'd move down the societal chain to whatever is created here, further marginalising them.
  • tommq, on 05/20/2008, -2/+17That is going to piss off a lot of Christians.
  • valis, on 05/20/2008, -4/+19My mother-in-law also suffers from Alzheimer's and I agree - it's just horrible. I'd like very much for a cure, although in her advanced age I don't hold out much hope.

    That being said, however ... does the end justify the means? I'm cautious about supporting this particular turn of events.
  • casf1b, on 05/20/2008, -3/+18"In The Year 2525....."
  • rmw132, on 05/20/2008, -2/+16ManBearPig: An Inconvenient Truth
  • inactive, on 05/20/2008, -3/+17I think the military would be pretty interested in this.

    Combine the brains of a human, the agility of a cat and the strength of a gorilla = ultimate soldier
  • SirTheGuy, on 05/20/2008, -0/+13Minotaurs in the future?
  • marabout40, on 05/20/2008, -1/+14It certainly is, Argentino.
  • jake8689, on 05/20/2008, -1/+14can i have a pet centaur now
  • Planets, on 05/20/2008, -7/+18Sigh...

    Werewolves, anyone?
  • shoveitfatty, on 05/20/2008, -1/+12Its actually more like a little cluster of cells....
  • raid517, on 05/20/2008, -1/+11This is Britain bear boy - where the 'religious right' can go ***** themselves....

    I already have my combo half rat, half turtle on order...
  • inactive, on 05/20/2008, -7/+17Oh look, a degenerate.


    The religious reproduction theory:
    "God puts souls in women's tummies!"
  • DocGlass, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10I'd say it is 2/2 animal. We are just naked apes with huge egos.
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  • DeviantDragon, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11Manimal vs. Animan
  • tommq, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10e.g. Enlightenment v. Middle Ages
  • Knucklecallus, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9Won't anybody think of the kittens!?
  • duckyinc, on 05/20/2008, -7/+16Just so you know.. scientist normally don't use dog eggs and won't let it grow up. (LOL @ religious people)
  • javguerre, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8i'm amazed it took this many replies before this conclusion was drawn.
  • jabelar, on 05/20/2008, -1/+9It depends on your definition of killing. If it means cutting off the remainder of a potential life then destroying an embryo is still killing it. That clump of cells is pre-disposed to live and develop.

    With that being said, humans do a lot of killing, including letting full-grown humans die elsewhere in the world through inaction on starvation, abuse, disease.

    So perhaps it is reasonable to say creating and destroying embryos is acceptable killing, since we tolerate so much of it already.
  • JibberGeorge, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8Too bad we often forget that....
  • swrostmore, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8dugg because my knowledge "chavs" is summed up by the "it's my precious, innit?" image macro of gollum in a golf hat....and gollum is pretty much 50% human and 50% animal, innit?
  • idontunderstand, on 05/20/2008, -3/+10dont really understand what you mean by that? are you saying that all atheists believe in doing this sort of thing and that all Christians dont. Thats a bit of a generalisation I think.
  • Vinperez, on 05/20/2008, -1/+8omg ***** yea
  • romistrub, on 05/20/2008, -1/+8A) Way to non-sequitur.
    B) Just because it isn't a word, doesn't mean it shouldn't be. I'm all for streamlining language, starting with superlatives.
    C) *You ;)
  • Y2JCrisis, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7Somebody once argued this with me.

    "Imagine, we're in the DOG family. The CAT family. Absurd!"

  • widdershins, on 05/20/2008, -3/+10Luckily, we don't really have much of a religious right in the UK. Those we do have are generally 90 year olds who are more concerned whether the vicar wants more tea.
  • romistrub, on 05/20/2008, -2/+8I demand to know whom amongst us dugg this man down! Whom, I say?!
  • mrloco, on 05/20/2008, -3/+9dont resist.
  • ChzPlz, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6I'm totally cereal.
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