According to Authorities at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
http://www.venganza.org/ we share 99.9% of our genes with Pirates and the
decline in Pirates is highly correlated to Global Warming.
"You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes,
and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of
Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the
approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the
last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse
relationship between pirates and global temperature." (FSM Web Site)
But I thought that it was interesting that someone, even jokingly was using
genetics for ethical reasoning. In recent months the Endangered Species Act
has been under attack using 'genetic science' (sic, for example see
http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/7522/C108/L108 ) so I thought
that using genetic evidence for ethical issues was of interest.
There has been a lot of stuff from the folks who take Peter Singer seriously
about the amount of pain animals feel; fish for example
http://www.fishinghurts.com/FishFeelPain.asp . They then use this as a basis
for more ethical treatment of fish. I think that maybe genetic evidence may
be as useful as pain receptors.
Steven
"In order to be old and wise one
must first be young and stupid."
T-Shirt in New Zealand
>From: Paul Kirby <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Discussion forum for environmental ethics."
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Apes/Persons
>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:44:01 +0100
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>What about the mice at 80% (or is it 99%).
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2536501.stm
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>or chickens at 60%
>http://www.genome.gov/12514316
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>or fruit flies (60%!!)
>http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/647139.stm
>
>I agree though, that it looks like a mischevious piece of reporting.
>
>
>--
>best
>
>P K
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