<!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 2 2005, 04:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 2 2005, 04:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Renegade+May 1 2005, 10:25 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Renegade @ May 1 2005, 10:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 1 2005, 05:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 1 2005, 05:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+May 1 2005, 08:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ May 1 2005, 08:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The belief that "all human life is sacred" is one that is deeply rooted in religion. Now, since religion continues to ignore science, I believe science can be excused for ignoring religion. And voila - the problem, she is gone. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh no. No you don't. Human life is sacred because people choose to call it sacred. No religion has to tell me to value human life. I choose not to kill people because I value their time on earth just as I value my own, empathetically speaking.
You can't just say "people only value human life because of religion", that's just not true. Nor is it right. Ethics != Religion. I refuse to start thinking that way without basis. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Funny thing, religion has caused more wars/deaths than both World Wars combined. Just thought you might want to know that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> In relation to what I said, that is a nuetral statement. (Since I was refering to ethics.)
And yeah I know about how much dna we share with a banana and pretty much any other animal out there. It's close. I just don't think turning animals into human parts factories is right. I mean the cow can't say anything about it, but maybe we should grow a mouth on it's back and a brain too just so it can come out and tell us to stop growing sh*t on it's back. "Hey yeah... so you remember that leg that just sort of... came out of there? Yeah... No. Just No. We're not doing that again, okay?"
Human parts factories? The name itself just hints at a degraded society. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Why not? Cows are already genetically-engineered animals, specifically "grown" to be useful for only one purpose: dying for humans. Give meat, milk, and leather; that's all a cow do. It is possibly the most maladapted animal ever; if you threw a cow into the wild it would be slaughtered so damn fast....the point is, the cows wouldn't even be there if we didn't find them useful to slaughter, so getting sentimental about them is rather silly.
<!--QuoteBegin-Sky+May 2 2005, 04:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sky @ May 2 2005, 04:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 2 2005, 04:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 2 2005, 04:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Renegade+May 1 2005, 10:25 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Renegade @ May 1 2005, 10:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 1 2005, 05:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 1 2005, 05:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+May 1 2005, 08:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ May 1 2005, 08:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The belief that "all human life is sacred" is one that is deeply rooted in religion. Now, since religion continues to ignore science, I believe science can be excused for ignoring religion. And voila - the problem, she is gone. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh no. No you don't. Human life is sacred because people choose to call it sacred. No religion has to tell me to value human life. I choose not to kill people because I value their time on earth just as I value my own, empathetically speaking.
You can't just say "people only value human life because of religion", that's just not true. Nor is it right. Ethics != Religion. I refuse to start thinking that way without basis. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Funny thing, religion has caused more wars/deaths than both World Wars combined. Just thought you might want to know that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> In relation to what I said, that is a nuetral statement. (Since I was refering to ethics.)
And yeah I know about how much dna we share with a banana and pretty much any other animal out there. It's close. I just don't think turning animals into human parts factories is right. I mean the cow can't say anything about it, but maybe we should grow a mouth on it's back and a brain too just so it can come out and tell us to stop growing sh*t on it's back. "Hey yeah... so you remember that leg that just sort of... came out of there? Yeah... No. Just No. We're not doing that again, okay?"
Human parts factories? The name itself just hints at a degraded society. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Why not? Cows are already genetically-engineered animals, specifically "grown" to be useful for only one purpose: dying for humans. Give meat, milk, and leather; that's all a cow do. It is possibly the most maladapted animal ever; if you threw a cow into the wild it would be slaughtered so damn fast....the point is, the cows wouldn't even be there if we didn't find them useful to slaughter, so getting sentimental about them is rather silly. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Would we eat the same cows that we grew stuff out of? I think that's where I'd draw the line really.
<!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 2 2005, 05:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 2 2005, 05:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Sky+May 2 2005, 04:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sky @ May 2 2005, 04:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 2 2005, 04:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 2 2005, 04:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Renegade+May 1 2005, 10:25 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Renegade @ May 1 2005, 10:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 1 2005, 05:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 1 2005, 05:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+May 1 2005, 08:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ May 1 2005, 08:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The belief that "all human life is sacred" is one that is deeply rooted in religion. Now, since religion continues to ignore science, I believe science can be excused for ignoring religion. And voila - the problem, she is gone. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh no. No you don't. Human life is sacred because people choose to call it sacred. No religion has to tell me to value human life. I choose not to kill people because I value their time on earth just as I value my own, empathetically speaking.
You can't just say "people only value human life because of religion", that's just not true. Nor is it right. Ethics != Religion. I refuse to start thinking that way without basis. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Funny thing, religion has caused more wars/deaths than both World Wars combined. Just thought you might want to know that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> In relation to what I said, that is a nuetral statement. (Since I was refering to ethics.)
And yeah I know about how much dna we share with a banana and pretty much any other animal out there. It's close. I just don't think turning animals into human parts factories is right. I mean the cow can't say anything about it, but maybe we should grow a mouth on it's back and a brain too just so it can come out and tell us to stop growing sh*t on it's back. "Hey yeah... so you remember that leg that just sort of... came out of there? Yeah... No. Just No. We're not doing that again, okay?"
Human parts factories? The name itself just hints at a degraded society. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Why not? Cows are already genetically-engineered animals, specifically "grown" to be useful for only one purpose: dying for humans. Give meat, milk, and leather; that's all a cow do. It is possibly the most maladapted animal ever; if you threw a cow into the wild it would be slaughtered so damn fast....the point is, the cows wouldn't even be there if we didn't find them useful to slaughter, so getting sentimental about them is rather silly. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Would we eat the same cows that we grew stuff out of? I think that's where I'd draw the line really. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> People would "draw the line" if they knew what exactly they were eating when they sink their teeth into a hotdog or sausage. Oh God, the horror. Not quite as bad as The Jungle, but still enough to make one shudder.
Yet most of the public doesn't know, or doesn't want to know, about where our food comes from. So hiding the fact that they're eating meat that shared an animal with a human lung or something shouldn't be too hard.
No other comment necessary. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Pfffttt Horse's are overrated
Besides a mechanical one could move by itself and be programmed to do stuff while in use.
"Whoa look at that!"
"It can play MP3's too!" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> and
<!--QuoteBegin-esuna+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->People in rural areas the world over have been injecting human DNA into animals for centuries.
Anyways an anime chick prototype if you are being serious would be a difficult task indeed. Depends on the style of anime to which you refer. Major from GitS shouldn't be too hard (...well until you look at her, ooooooH! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> bad x5, bad!), but Kagome's legs are just imao way too long. *snap* Blue hair wouldn't be too hard, as a matter of fact engineering pigmentation is one of the easiest things to genetically engineer. (take genetically engineered tobacco which produces lightening bug phosphorescent chemical to make the leaves glow) The downside in all genetic engineering is that inorder to have one thing you usually have to sacrifice something else. Call it a trade off or side effect if you will.
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Oh no. No you don't. Human life is sacred because people choose to call it sacred. No religion has to tell me to value human life. I choose not to kill people because I value their time on earth just as I value my own, empathetically speaking.
You can't just say "people only value human life because of religion", that's just not true. Nor is it right. Ethics != Religion. I refuse to start thinking that way without basis. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Funny thing, religion has caused more wars/deaths than both World Wars combined. Just thought you might want to know that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In relation to what I said, that is a nuetral statement. (Since I was refering to ethics.)
And yeah I know about how much dna we share with a banana and pretty much any other animal out there. It's close. I just don't think turning animals into human parts factories is right. I mean the cow can't say anything about it, but maybe we should grow a mouth on it's back and a brain too just so it can come out and tell us to stop growing sh*t on it's back. "Hey yeah... so you remember that leg that just sort of... came out of there? Yeah... No. Just No. We're not doing that again, okay?"
Human parts factories? The name itself just hints at a degraded society. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Why not? Cows are already genetically-engineered animals, specifically "grown" to be useful for only one purpose: dying for humans. Give meat, milk, and leather; that's all a cow do. It is possibly the most maladapted animal ever; if you threw a cow into the wild it would be slaughtered so damn fast....the point is, the cows wouldn't even be there if we didn't find them useful to slaughter, so getting sentimental about them is rather silly.
Oh no. No you don't. Human life is sacred because people choose to call it sacred. No religion has to tell me to value human life. I choose not to kill people because I value their time on earth just as I value my own, empathetically speaking.
You can't just say "people only value human life because of religion", that's just not true. Nor is it right. Ethics != Religion. I refuse to start thinking that way without basis. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Funny thing, religion has caused more wars/deaths than both World Wars combined. Just thought you might want to know that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In relation to what I said, that is a nuetral statement. (Since I was refering to ethics.)
And yeah I know about how much dna we share with a banana and pretty much any other animal out there. It's close. I just don't think turning animals into human parts factories is right. I mean the cow can't say anything about it, but maybe we should grow a mouth on it's back and a brain too just so it can come out and tell us to stop growing sh*t on it's back. "Hey yeah... so you remember that leg that just sort of... came out of there? Yeah... No. Just No. We're not doing that again, okay?"
Human parts factories? The name itself just hints at a degraded society. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Why not? Cows are already genetically-engineered animals, specifically "grown" to be useful for only one purpose: dying for humans. Give meat, milk, and leather; that's all a cow do. It is possibly the most maladapted animal ever; if you threw a cow into the wild it would be slaughtered so damn fast....the point is, the cows wouldn't even be there if we didn't find them useful to slaughter, so getting sentimental about them is rather silly. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Would we eat the same cows that we grew stuff out of? I think that's where I'd draw the line really.
Oh no. No you don't. Human life is sacred because people choose to call it sacred. No religion has to tell me to value human life. I choose not to kill people because I value their time on earth just as I value my own, empathetically speaking.
You can't just say "people only value human life because of religion", that's just not true. Nor is it right. Ethics != Religion. I refuse to start thinking that way without basis. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Funny thing, religion has caused more wars/deaths than both World Wars combined. Just thought you might want to know that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In relation to what I said, that is a nuetral statement. (Since I was refering to ethics.)
And yeah I know about how much dna we share with a banana and pretty much any other animal out there. It's close. I just don't think turning animals into human parts factories is right. I mean the cow can't say anything about it, but maybe we should grow a mouth on it's back and a brain too just so it can come out and tell us to stop growing sh*t on it's back. "Hey yeah... so you remember that leg that just sort of... came out of there? Yeah... No. Just No. We're not doing that again, okay?"
Human parts factories? The name itself just hints at a degraded society. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Why not? Cows are already genetically-engineered animals, specifically "grown" to be useful for only one purpose: dying for humans. Give meat, milk, and leather; that's all a cow do. It is possibly the most maladapted animal ever; if you threw a cow into the wild it would be slaughtered so damn fast....the point is, the cows wouldn't even be there if we didn't find them useful to slaughter, so getting sentimental about them is rather silly. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Would we eat the same cows that we grew stuff out of? I think that's where I'd draw the line really. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
People would "draw the line" if they knew what exactly they were eating when they sink their teeth into a hotdog or sausage. Oh God, the horror. Not quite as bad as The Jungle, but still enough to make one shudder.
Yet most of the public doesn't know, or doesn't want to know, about where our food comes from. So hiding the fact that they're eating meat that shared an animal with a human lung or something shouldn't be too hard.
No other comment necessary. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pfffttt Horse's are overrated
Besides a mechanical one could move by itself and be programmed to do stuff while in use.
"Whoa look at that!"
"It can play MP3's too!" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
and
<!--QuoteBegin-esuna+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->People in rural areas the world over have been injecting human DNA into animals for centuries.
<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
cause me to raise an eyebrow at some of you...
Anyways an anime chick prototype if you are being serious would be a difficult task indeed. Depends on the style of anime to which you refer. Major from GitS shouldn't be too hard (...well until you look at her, ooooooH! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> bad x5, bad!), but Kagome's legs are just imao way too long. *snap* Blue hair wouldn't be too hard, as a matter of fact engineering pigmentation is one of the easiest things to genetically engineer. (take genetically engineered tobacco which produces lightening bug phosphorescent chemical to make the leaves glow) The downside in all genetic engineering is that inorder to have one thing you usually have to sacrifice something else. Call it a trade off or side effect if you will.
Also, BloodySloth gets a special place in my Ultimate Book of Quotes for saying " Would PETA still care about an animal that was part human?"
The answer is no... No, they wouldn't.