Thank you for the response, I think I get the argument now.
I don’t have a good answer for why we allow animal testing but not human testing. If one is fine with animal experimentation then there doesn’t seem to be any way to object to engineering human babies that would have human physiology but animal level cognition and conduct tests on them. While the idea does make me uncomfortable I think I would bite that bullet.
If one is fine with animal experimentation then there doesn’t seem to be any way to object to engineering human babies that would have human physiology but animal level cognition and conduct tests on them.
Thank you for the response, I think I get the argument now.
I don’t have a good answer for why we allow animal testing but not human testing. If one is fine with animal experimentation then there doesn’t seem to be any way to object to engineering human babies that would have human physiology but animal level cognition and conduct tests on them. While the idea does make me uncomfortable I think I would bite that bullet.
The problem is that it makes the Schelling points more awkward.