Re:Why are there so many humans?
by JoeAltmaier on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:38AM
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Disagree. Change the genes enough, a human becomes a chimpanzee (and not very many genes either). Or change more, and you have a pig.
So is a pig that started with human genes, still human? Of course not. What about a human that started from pig genes? Hm.
That's what I mean, by being defined by existing humans. Because that's all we really have to go by.
You add wings to a person, lots of folks would be happy to call it a new kind of being. Some would argue its non-human. The proposal is to add disease resistance or other blood factors or cellular machinery, which are invisible and not obvious. But isn't it similar to adding wings?
"All humans that are possible" has to include the pig-human, and the winged-human, and so on. Clear to me, they are non-human.
So is a pig that started with human genes, still human? Of course not. What about a human that started from pig genes? Hm.
That's what I mean, by being defined by existing humans. Because that's all we really have to go by.
You add wings to a person, lots of folks would be happy to call it a new kind of being. Some would argue its non-human. The proposal is to add disease resistance or other blood factors or cellular machinery, which are invisible and not obvious. But isn't it similar to adding wings?
"All humans that are possible" has to include the pig-human, and the winged-human, and so on. Clear to me, they are non-human.