RE: Time to question bioengineering.
June 22, 2011 at 8:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2011 at 8:58 pm by Epimethean.)
Chuck, that is fascinating. A question I would put forward here is this: Is the Sacculina doing what it does by instinct or out of a calculated plan? Further, are we so reduced in our capacities that we should take refuge behind instinct in a situation such as the one which prompted this line of inquiry? I find that barnacle impressive for its adaptations to survive, and yet I feel that, as high order vertebrates, we are in a slightly different arena here.
Is there an ethics of barnacality? If not, does that mean that no such system must exist for man?
Void, when reason is given for me to seriously evaluate my thinking, I will always say thank you. I realize that I am making a rather emotional argument here, and yet something in me does not see this as inherently wrong, somehow. In a way, I see the difference as that between burglary and robbery, wherein killing the animal to use it seems (yes, I realize the tendentious nature of that verb) more like the former and removing its own motivations while leaving it alive more like the latter. Both are thefts, but one seems more violative.
I appreciate you fellows walking me around this thing.
Is there an ethics of barnacality? If not, does that mean that no such system must exist for man?
Void, when reason is given for me to seriously evaluate my thinking, I will always say thank you. I realize that I am making a rather emotional argument here, and yet something in me does not see this as inherently wrong, somehow. In a way, I see the difference as that between burglary and robbery, wherein killing the animal to use it seems (yes, I realize the tendentious nature of that verb) more like the former and removing its own motivations while leaving it alive more like the latter. Both are thefts, but one seems more violative.
I appreciate you fellows walking me around this thing.
Trying to update my sig ...
