(June 22, 2011 at 7:16 pm)Epimethean Wrote: feels [...] to ME
That's what it comes down to.
Quote:Creating zombies is not creating life, nor would this process be.
Semantics perhaps, the conceptual zombie seems as if it would fit the criteria for life .
Quote:Self-worship in the form of taking on the powers of total control over living beings devoid of consciousness. It may not be against human nature, and I may be in the minority here, but it feels out of sorts with nature.
False equivocation, simply taking control of some system be it living or not does not imply that one worships themselves. It seems to me that you're associating a position you dislike with gods/worship as an attack, it's not a good argument in any case.
How is it 'out of sorts with nature'? Do you mean it's uncommon? There are spiders that inject toxins into their victims that makes them a kind of 'drone' with beneficial behaviours. Spiders also imprison their victims and slowly digest them. Uncommon yes, but not 'unnatural'.
Quote:As for playing with animals, how is it not playing with them to remove their control of their own bodies and direct them howsoever we wish?
Sorry, my question was 'what scenario do you envision?' as in, for what purpose can you actually see this happen?
Quote:Self-determination as it regards free will. I see a difference between this and raising animals for food. I doubt I'll make it far on that ground, but I do feel there is a difference.
I don't see the relationship, what does raising animals for food have to do with free will?
As for free will, it doesn't exist, not in the cartesian sense.
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