Japan legalizes stem cell research!

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

We breed animals and such for food, and for lab testng, why see it as a travesty when its with humans? Were all animals.

Once you say breeding humans for food and lab testing, you're talking about exactly what Nazi Germany did. They did horrendous lab testing on humans they deemed less than human.

If you're against breeding animals for food and science, then fine. But saying it should be done on humans is outright ignorant.

What you're talking about is taking away fundamental human rights, you would be making a whole race of humans that would be less than human. That's exactly what slavery is, except in this case it's worse because you'll be lab testing them and eating them. Slavery America as far as I remember at least never did that.

[thatmariolover]

As much as I see what you're trying to say GameMaster, I have an opposite approach to it. Animal testing/breeding should be as illegal as it is for humans. Human testing/breeding shouldn't be as legal as it is for animals.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

As much as I see what you're trying to say GameMaster, I have an opposite approach to it. Animal testing/breeding should be as illegal as it is for humans. Human testing/breeding shouldn't be as legal as it is for animals.

I think he was trying to make a point. If ones legal why not the other. Or if ones illegal, why is the other legal.

But yeah, i say either both, or none.

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I think he was trying to make a point. If ones legal why not the other. Or if ones illegal, why is the other legal.

But yeah, i say either both, or none.

Right. I figured that was what he was trying to say as well. It was just the side that he posted that most people were reacting negatively to.

Edit: Sorry Vampy, didn't see your post there.

Originally Posted by Vampyr

“I knew you even before
you were conceived.”

Jeremiah 1:4-5

To me that says something. Being a religious statement, I understand it wouldnt help solve anything scientifically, but I am a christain, and I take those words to heart. So is abortion murder? Even if it is still a undeveloped embryo? Yes. It is. Something that was once living is no longer living. It's not alive anymore, so therefore it is dead.

First of all, the context of "conceived" in that passage can be and is highly disputed. It could just as easily have been intended to have been said "I knew you even before your parents decided to have you." And second, I don't take every word in the Bible literally. God didn't say those things. People said that God said those things.

I'm a Christian myself, and believe much of what's been said. But there are places I draw the line.

Yeah, if you kill something that was once Living it's dead. Sperm is a living entity. So is bacteria. And Bacteria is capable of more rational thought than an embreyo. Yet I don't feel bad about using Lysol on it when it could possibly turn into a rational sentient bacteria.

I'm not criticizing your views. I'm just stating where mine differ.