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From: chiaravi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: Re: Neoteny and Human Genetic Engineering
Keywords: slave races
Message-ID: <2950@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 89 22:19:25 GMT
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Reply-To: chiaravi@silver.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Organization: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <13307@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
writes:
>Lucius Chiaraviglio says the creation of a slave race --  hmm, need to find
>a new term for that;  how about "animal friends" -- would be an abomination.
>Who is to say my abomination is less than your abomination?  How is it worse
>to make use of a biological robot than an electromechanical robot?

	Exactly.  Do what you will with nonsentient machines, but if you make
a sentient machine, it deserves the same rights as other sentient beings.

>                                                                    Don't we
>already have slave ... uh, animal friends in the form of dogs and cats?

	Animal friends are not slaves.  However, far from everyone's pets are
animal friends. . . .

>Both Gordon Letwin and Lucius remark on the topic of IQ tests.

	I wasn't trying to put any great stock in them, but rather using the
topic to point out that talking about raising IQ's (or actually anything else)
by a factor of 10 isn't something that you just throw around -- especially
considering that chimpanzees (the subject of that part of the original
posting) are probably not THAT far behind us.

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