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From: bryans@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bryan Siegfried)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The Ethics of Species Engineering ( WAS: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids?)
Keywords: ethics
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.144723.19111@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 14:47:23 GMT
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zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes:

>Interesting - no one seems to mind breeding chimps for experimental
>purposes, yet a chimp/human hybrid is 'abhorrent' and a 'vurtual [sic]
>slave'.  

>I suppose you consider chimpanzees primitive enough to enslave?

>- Pat

	Do you want the truth?  No, I do not consider chimpanzees primitive
enough to enslave.  But I believe that for purposes of research that the needs
of humanity take primacy over the dubious rights of the chimpanzees.  I 
simply cannot rationalize the halting of medical science so that chimpanzees,
or any other creature, will no longer have to die for research.

	I believe that followups should be directed to alt.flame.

___
Bryan