Chinese scientists are making human-monkey hybrid embryos

[SeamusAMurphy]

What could go wrong?

[bb4me]

that tag tho

so if one of these poor creatures gets pregnant and they have to terminate the pregnancy, will that make a bible-thumper’s head explode?

china arguably would at least have some control over this, imagine what happens when the tech gets into the hands of a country like north korea

[d_r]

[fuzzyfungus]

@Scientist

It just seems like immoral, expensive, risky research done purely to see if they can.

Don’t forget about one-upping the CRISPR baby guy. It’s to do that and to see if they can.

[Mister44]

[belovedvillain]

What a jam. I love this whole record.

[fuzzyfungus]

Too risky. After a transplant your social credit score is recalculated as a weighted average of the recipient’s score and the donor’s score. Most transplants don’t weigh all that much; but when the donor’s score was low enough that they got executed for parts it’s still terrible for your average.

[Mindysan33]

@mr_raccoon

catgirls

Start here for what happens when you get catgirls…please read the whole arc. Honestly, I’m not willing to lose Wil Wheaton’s arm (again) to satisfy Elon Musk’s whatever…

[Brainspore]

@Akimbo_NOT

Going to the zoo is going to get weird.

Still a toss-up which side of the bars we’ll be on when all is said and done.

[Shuck]

@theodore604

I’d prefer it be grown in a human clone of myself (ala The Island, or never let me go). Still even more preferable to be a clone that’s missing a brain or some critical mass of neurons so that it doesn’t suffer.

Preferably? So… you’d be okay with that not being the case? Well, okay buddy, but I’ve got bad news for you. You’re the clone. We’ll be by to eviscerate you for parts tomorrow.

[BakaNeko]

Japan Approves Scientist's Plan to Create World's First Humanimals

[BakaNeko]

[theodore604]

That’s nice. I’ll be waiting for you. Or will it be the clone I had made? WHO KNOWS?! Will the other me get mad that it’s a copy of a copy and not the first copy?

[BakaNeko]

[rob_bray]

I never saw you, I only heard of you…

[rob_bray]

The problem with using political prisoners is the high potential for damage to your spare parts by the low quality of Chinese prison guards. Things like eyes, testicals, livers, etc, all get damaged so darn easily you see… Lab monkeys, or at least their parts, are far better protected…

[RickMycroft]

“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

“Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

“Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

“Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

“Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”

[BakaNeko]

Alphonse Moreau

[d_r]

@Mindysan33

Start here for what happens when you get catgirls…

Or here:

@BakaNeko

Dr. Alphonse Moreau is a vivisectionist

Oh yeah, that guy.

Three Reasons: Island of Lost Souls

[spejic]

@anothernewbbaccount

Because political prisoners can be much more expensive to house and maintain than monkeys.

@Gutierrez

Why not say you’ve developed secret monkey tech and then just use prisoners if you’re going for broke morally?

@lumbercartel

Because the recipients will still have to be immunosuppressed to prevent rejection

@fuzzyfungus

Too risky. After a transplant your social credit score is recalculated as a weighted average of the recipient’s score and the donor’s score.

You guys are missing David_Friedman’s point. China is already using political prisoners for organ harvesting, killing them as needed.