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From: lae@pedsga.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,talk.politics.misc,talk.origins,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
Keywords: beastiality
Message-ID: <580@pedsga.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 13:11:41 GMT
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Reply-To: lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ann Ellis)
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In article <2087@bgsuvax.UUCP> edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP writes:
>Most people find beastiality repulsive because of health reasons

Hmmm, I would expect to have a better chance of catching diseases
suited to my chemistry from members of my own species.

>                                       or because they have been 'in-
>doctrinated' with these Judeo-Christians prohibitions

This is the most likely reason.  The bible is full of warnings against
committing abominations with our less evolved cousins.

>Now you might say this is ridiculous no one's going to go out and 'get
>it on with chimps'

I wouldn't make such a sweeping generalization; I can only speak
for myself.

>                                                          To that I
>say don't forget Carl's concern about the chimp's emotional needs.

Bravo, Bravo!  Spoken as a true animal lover!

>At what point, saying the gene tinkering works, would the chimps be
>sufficiently 'human' to allow for meaningful sex (assuming you accept
>the concept).

The prime requisite for meaningful sex is to have similar mating rituals,
meaning that the individuals involved are capable of recognizing that the
other is, indeed, attracted to them.

>Save the whales, Free the chimps!
>
>        Ken Jenkins as guest of edwards@bgsu


Leslie

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