laudablepuss wrote:

Chairman Mao wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

How does it weaken the distinction between me and my appendix, that's in a jar? And sure, there but for the grace of God go I, but there are a million places I'd be but for the grace of God, and if God weren't such a fucking dick, there are a million better places I could be too.

I think he's trying to point out that there is some irony that in a fanatical Christian effort to circumvent that troublesome human soul problem that providence may be granted to the manufacture and farming of biologically human biomass; somehow ignoring the fact that ultimately, its completely the same as taking dead aborted fetuses for the same purpose. Well, maybe not completely the same because in typical politician fashion, he's making up science as he goes along to meet his agenda, and isn't letting himself be troubled by problems in expression by cells that have already been genetically tampered with.

Okay, how does the fact that the Christians may or may not be hypocrits weaken the distinction between me and my parts? I thought the holy grail was eventually to be able to replace organs with glistening, slimy cloned organs grown in a vat. Anyway, my real confusion is what the author wants. He's a liberal, I think, so I gather he's in favor of stem-cell research. But not MONSTER RESEARCH OMG. What was the line that was crossed from his perspective? It made him not want to eat lunch?

By "problems in expression by cells that have already been genetically tampered with", are you referring to the possibility that a cell that's had it's "human? y/n" gene turned to "n" becoming a human anyway?