I think it depends on:
Whose doing it? Is it someone that can be trusted without ulterior motives?
Why are they doing it? Is it to solve just to solve problem or just to gain prestige by being the first ones that could do it, or someone who thinks about the ramifications of what they are doing? The road to heII is paved with good intentions and I'm not just talking about a literal heII but major consequences that humanity could suffer because of someone's carelessness.
Are they doing it ethically? Are they treating the animals with respect and care? Do they use them and throw them away after?
We don't have a legal framework right now for animal human hybrids, are they animal? Are they human? Do they have rights? These are big deep ethical questions that aren't answered yet and do we wait until they exist to answer the questions? Same with Robots with AI, we have not even begun to answer these questions, yet we are creating them, using them for our own purposes, etc.
Right now, I don't believe it is ethical because we haven't had those discussions and frankly, I prefer to leave the job of playing God to God. Not a scientist with a God complex. Exploitation because you created it, doesn't make it less exploitative.
Some testing makes me really mad, when it's cruel and unethical. And completely unnecessary.
I just think it depends on the factors you mentioned.
People do experiments with animals all the time. God gave animals to us, so we care for them, but they are not as valuable as humans, so if scientists are using hamsters, guinea pigs, chinchillas, any animals for experiments, it is not that bad, unless it is serious animal abuse. That does not mean we should treat animals like dirt, but if we need to do an experiment on them that could save humans, (or the animal), animal testing is fine if we know what we are doing.
Because we already know that hamsters will most often fight if they are housed together, putting them together is a dangerous and mean experiment, it is an unnecessary experiment, because we already know what would happen. But the group called Hero Rats, which uses rats to find land mines, is ok because it is not abusive, is save for the animal and benefits humans.
And then there is testing chemicals on them. We should not be trying to feed Radon water to animals, because we know that Radon is poisonous. (Ironically, in the old days they thought Radon water was the ultimate health drink.)
There is some necessary testing and then you see the testing that's unnecessary and you are just like "wait, what?"
Ofc, there's always going to be a bad side, and often a good side.
IMO, I just think it depends.
But, in my opinion, hybrid animals are pretty cool. But it is messing up that natural order of nature and God's work, and when we try to make new animals, it is kind of wrong, if you know what I mean.
I agree, and totally get what you are saying, but I think animals are fine the way they are and we don't need hybrids.
A bunch of new news stories and interviews? But what does it do for the animal? Is it helping? Unless it is beneficial in some way, I don't think it is humane.
Edited by ♥~kitkat7♥, 02 June 2022 - 02:27 AM.
