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Date Posted: 16:41:17 2/27/23 Mon
Author: Jasper
Subject: A question of ethics or a question of morals

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But what about the Neandertal?

These were people. Not us, but people. They almost certainly had a spoken language. Their brains were larger than ours, but organized somewhat differently. If we were to use the fully-sequenced Neandertal genome – which we have – to bring back one of these people, what would their status be?

My thinking is that this would be a human being, with all the rights and responsibilities that go with that. He or she would be genetically Neandertal but with a modern human’s viewpoints, experiences, and world-view. He or she would grow up in the world with modern technology and economy; so we would have this person who is, literally, a minority of one, part of modern society and yet separated from it in a way that no ethnic or religious minority today has ever been.

That’s the real ethical question. If I were forced to answer the question now, “would it be ethical to clone a Neandertal,” fascinating as that would be, I would say no. There’s a huge difference between conducting a genetic experiment on a mammoth or a bear, and conducting the same experiment on a person, whether it be a modern human or a Neandertal.

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