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This question will be even more pertinent in 2050, when instead of modifying pigs so that they're more similar to us, we'll be modifying Homo sapiens to stunt t
by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
This question will be even more pertinent in 2050, when instead of modifying pigs so that they're more similar to us, we'll be modifying Homo sapiens to stunt their intelligent.
Those Homo stulti will have neither the agency nor the ability to decide their fate, but their organs will drastically improve the quality of life for sapiens.
Interesting times :)
- keymone 5y agothat's too grim, i think probability is much larger that we figure out a way to grow human organs inside pigs before we turn actual humans into mindless incubators.
- ahmedalsudani 5y agoPerhaps it sounds grim, but it seems no different than what we're doing. Do we base our morality on the patterns of the synapses or the shape of the bodies? The former makes more sense to me. To be absolutely clear, this is not an endorsement of modifying humans for the purpose of farming organs. It's more about highlighting the thin moral line that relies on the body shape.
- keymone 5y agobut then the act of depriving a being of a certain pattern of synapses that would make it immoral to harm is immoral in itself.
- DennisP 5y agoThe researchers in the article just modified the pig's DNA so it doesn't express a particular sugar that the human immune system doesn't like. No human DNA goes in the pig.
- nathias 5y agohyperpigs are people too!