Attack Of The Killer Cybrids

On 17th May, I wrote:

Would you believe it, the creation of hybrid and chimera embryos is necessary in order to treat Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease! Just like everything else that these people ever want, of course. Nothing so vulgar as evidence is ever produced, because none exists. But who are the rest of us to ask to see any?

The world's most famous ever sufferer from Parkinson's Disease was the world's leading opponent of stem-cell "research", also held up as the solution to Park'n'Alz, but in fact advocated, like these latest ghastly developments, by people who genuinely could not care less of everyone else in the world succumbed to either or both of those diseases. What matters to them is the dehumanisation of the embryonic human being, the depersonalisation of human beings generally, the desanctification of human life. The mere popular knowledge that these procedures are taking place at all is an important part of that entirely non-scientific project, the true character of which is philosophical, economic, social, cultural and political.

Likewise, among so much else, this latest attempt to normalise the (necessarily artificial) cross-breeding of human beings and other species, so as to entrench in the public mind the view that human beings are, as it were, nothing special. This is not least because of the obvious answer to the question of what, or Who, it is that makes human beings special. And it so also, closely relatedly, because an economic and political system which can treat animals as people can just as easily treat (or, very often, simply carry on treating) people as animals.

Or vice versa, of course. Some of the people who want this want to treat people like animals, some want to treat animals like people, and some want to do both. But all want to blur the distinction. And which people will suffer? It won't be them. Well, of course not. As Chesterton said, wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice. So, as I concluded on 17th May:

Who is going to be on this new regulatory body? Chosen by whom, by what means, and on what criteria? I think we should be told. And I think that at least some of the members should be elected by, and from among, the general public.