Technology
developed incredibly fast for the last 20 years. Today we are surrounded by
smartphones, robots and other inventions. It includes genetically modified
animals, steerable rats, creating brains artificially. When technology meets
living organisms, there appears ethical questions. Should we modify these animals
just for fun? What about the influence of genetically modified food on our
organisms?
Questions:
1.Do you think that modified animals,
like fluorescent cats, fish should be forbidden?
2.What is your opinion about mixing
breeds? Should we interfere in nature?
3.Should we use animals to carry out
experiments such as third hand of monkey or steer rat’s brain? Where is the
limit of use of animals?
Comments
I think,that mixing breeds is a good idea, but doing it without any bad influence on a nature would be better.
In some way yes, but of course, there is a limit and you need to feel this kind of border between normal part of experiments and overextended.
It's a little too late to think about our attitude towards mixing breeds. It's been happening for so many years that it has become natural to us. We see some species - we breed it to be better/funnier/prettier. Sometimes it doesn't end too well. Let's take a while to think about pugs - they're funny, cute, but I also think they suffer being the way they are.
I think conducting such experiments on animals is too cruel to be accepted. We should research some better ways of doing such experiments. That's already crossing the limits of what we should be allowed to do as a human race.
Let's imagine that other species on this planet would be sophisticated enough to communicate with us in the future. How would we possibly explain to them what we did to their ancestors? Absolutely barbaric.
I don't like the most of artificially created breeds of dogs or cats, created by humans. In my opinion, breeding should support the evolution, replace natural selection with artificial, which increase the attachement of strong biological features in the population.
Again, if the animals are used for testing things that are made only with money-dragging purpouse - this is wrong. If the reason of the experiments hase some scientifical value - well, knowledge demands its payment, sometimes.
I think it has its pros and cons. When we talk about GMO I really support this idea, but when we interfere in our bodies or animals' bodies it may have more severe consequences. However, I am not a specialist in this branch to make some serious conclusions.
I am inclined to believe that this process is out of our control and even if we don't reckon some experiments to be acceptable scientists would not stop do experiments.
Mixing breeds of animals is a bad practice, rarely it benefits such animal, and rarely it benefits humans, we started doing it for "fun" lately and its getting out of hands fast . Biggest no is that we rarely thing of what will happen to the animal besides it having prettier fur, or bigger nose...
I believe that everything that benefits humans in overcomin their disabilities should be accepted as a nessesary evil, on the other hand i think that we should start with us and our habits first rather than going for the "easiest"in some sense route ... Its relatively easy to make a liver farm from pigs instead of changing habits of the whole globe or even a nation.
We should start with ourselves but we sould not discard an option involving animals.
>1.Do you think that modified animals, like fluorescent cats, fish should be forbidden?
Why so? If someone is willing to pay for, e.g. seeing his shiny cat poop in his boots at 2am then why not?
>2.What is your opinion about mixing breeds? Should we interfere in nature?
Yes, as the nature itself also adjusts itself - where did all those superbacterias came from, if not from mutations that allowed them to survive and outrun the antibiotics? "It's either them or us, sir"
>3.Should we use animals to carry out experiments such as third hand of monkey or steer rat’s brain? Where is the limit of use of animals?
I say there is no limit, as long as it is not pointless. Sometimes you just can't use anything different.
I think that mixing breed is unnecessary. I read a lot about problems after dogs types mixing. They have a lot of illnesses.
As I said in my presentation, maybe we should start testing on bad people? Why we can't do it on serial killers? They are worse than animals for me.