I believe some people think there is a level of responsibility- a border that scientists will not pass when experimenting or trying to discover just how much they can do. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-korea-dog-idUSTRE76Q1MK20110727 This is just a dog. However...how do we know humans aren't going to be used in these experiments? Of course they will never say it, and they will also say that this biological tampering is, in some way, for the betterment of mankind, but where will it end up. Do you think it scientists could make a half-human, half-wolf hybrid, they wouldn't try because of ethical reasons? Do you think if scientists could get a man to see into the future by poking his spine with holes they wouldn't try this? My point. While human ethics and the ubiquitous "human potential for good" seems to always be offered to explain away our historical and present day barbarisms as things we just have to endure until we get to that golden age, it seems to me that while we always assume their is some ethical or moral boundary to these types of things, in reality, these types of experiments are probably being carried out in some corner of the world no one cares about and while it might yield some "useful" knowledge or application that fits into the whole morality and ethics thing, it's likely going to be used primarily to discover who to advance some person, state, or organizations interest outside of the public eye. I guess, in short, same stuff, different day...
A bunch of dogs are going to die from fatal diseases that are going to be inserted in place of the bioluminescence. In the later stages of research, after they think they have something, such projects are going to move into the human testing phase. Of course there are going to be human experiments, they just happen later. We can never really be sure what the affects are going to be on humans from just testing on animals. Now, I personally actually like the idea of research. I just hate killing living creatures for that research, even just dogs. Maybe one day they'll start testing on lumps of flesh that they grow in a lab. That technology can't be too far off, and then that's the end of the moral dilemma, I think. I hope!
