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Originally Posted by Redhead  Considering how we treat all the other living, feeling creatures on this planet there isn't much chance of that happening. We treat the great apes abysmally with our compassionate interpretation of human morality.
Frankly I think it's a double standard to even expect us to treat cloned Neanderthals any different, to the point of being hypocrisy even. |
Well I'd like to see more humane treatment for great apes as well.
But the fact that we do not treat other animals well doesn't seem to be sufficient justification to treat a prospective Neanderthal poorly.
Also, this isn't a matter of us failing to peacefully co-existing with another animal with whom we happen to be sharing the planet. We would be completely responsible for bringing this Neanderthal into the world, and that arrival would be solely for our own research purposes. I believe that makes us more responsible for it than any other animal.