Rethinking Humanity: the Chimera Debate

[Vmedvil5]

It seems there is currently a debate on whether human animals chimeras should be granted personhood, read more at https://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-2/yu/

[OceanBreeze]

So, this essay is from a “prize essay contest” and not from any scientific journal.

I read it until I reached this hilarious sentence “Her experiment, however, opens the possibility of a human having mice parents, for if male and female chimeric mice mated, the zygote produced would be entirely human.”

At that point I was laughing too hard to continue.

When the researchers grow a human head on a cow that displays full human consciousness and autonomy, then I will consider the issue of granting personhood to a chimera.

I hope that Boston University Arts & Sciences Writing Program will let us know if this Essay wins any awards.