Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28933504-20151216004432/@comment-26062370-20151217154717

Mephistophele wrote: Yup. Besides, I'm not talking about randomly altering their genetic code- I'm talking about very specific, tightly controlled experiments, with clear-cut goals. Genetic scientists are not idiots.

Besides, any breeding that would occur would be part of the experiment- this isn't something that will be released into the general mouse population by accident. Honestly, I have to agree with Meph-town. Genetic research that could advance and help both human- and animal-kind? Proceed, my friend - it's like the old saying goes, 'To make an omelette, you must break a few eggs'. Testing that will obviously cause some detriment to the animal for something, in the grand old scheme of things, trivial? No.

In the end, I think it depends on three crucial factors - the severity of the testing, the risk(s) involved therein, and the positive and negative outcomes for man/animal-kind.