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Old 11-25-2008, 11:16 PM   #103 (permalink)
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There is only one way to find out what the neanderthals were like, and that's to clone some up and see. I say go for it and let the chips fall where they may. Fear of "what if's" isn't a reason to not do something.
Well, most of the concerns haven't been so much "what if's" but rather "certainly will's." When the experiment is done, we certainly will have a living, feeling child that by any compassionate interpretation of human morality should be treated with dignity and kindness ... more than just a science experiment and more than the property of the research facility that produced it.


All that said, I'm not completely opposed to an experiment like this, given careful ethical supervision.
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