Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Speciesism?

This is a cute turn of an otherwise silly idea:

A Winning Argument on Cloning?: "

‘Farming cloned livestock should be banned because the animals suffer too much, EU ethics experts said last night.’


Meanwhile, in the USA, there is no restriction-at all-on human cloning, be it for so-called ‘therapeutic’ purposes (i.e. where a human being is cloned and then the clone is dismembered for parts) or for reproductive purposes (that is, in America it’s A-OK to clone-for-babies). But maybe once we see that the animals suffer too much we’ll do something about the humans-we wouldn’t want to be speciesists, after all.

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(Via First Things.)

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