Genetically Altered Fish

[channing]

I don't see what the problem is with Glofish.

The genes don't harm them, they live normally, just brightly colored.

I also don't see why people are pulling religion into this, but I shouldn't be saying anythig, being an atheist myself.

(not trying to steal topic) but as to religion it kinda like this how far should we go with this type of thing before we start trying to play God.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

I don't see what the problem is with Glofish.

The genes don't harm them, they live normally, just brightly colored.

I also don't see why people are pulling religion into this, but I shouldn't be saying anythig, being an atheist myself.

(not trying to steal topic) but as to religion it kinda like this how far should we go with this type of thing before we start trying to play God.

There it goes again.

Since I do not believe in any sort of higher power, that reasoning makes no sense. I can understand not harming the fish, or any other living thing, by genetic manipulation, or making abominations, but I think it should keep on going.

 

[ArauraDiscus]

It's human nature to try to play God. We want to be gods. It's the edipus complex. We want to kill our father, and well not marry our mothers person, but take over mother nature.

 

[channing]

It's human nature to try to play God. We want to be gods. It's the edipus complex. We want to kill our father, and well not marry our mothers person, but take over mother nature.

a true but scary thought

 

[merry78]

for what it's worth, (which i realise is nothing!), i am not keen on the idea. Sooooooo not keen.

 

[poopsydrew]

It's human nature to try to play God. We want to be gods. It's the edipus complex. We want to kill our father, and well not marry our mothers person, but take over mother nature.

lol, Thats up for debate. Being a psych major I can tell you most of us as children dont want to kill our fathers (or mothers if your female). It has more to do with insecurity and possession issues. The theory behind this is that a young boy is threatened that his father will take the mothers attention away from him. That said that is a very simple explanation of the oedipus complex and the murder view was freuds original thoughts. With the mentally sane these thoughts are easily repressed with age and maturity. Just thought I would add my insight for what its worth.

Drew

 

[merry78]

With the mentally sane these thoughts are easily repressed with age and maturity.

lol...gee... that sounds um...healthy

 

[TylerFerretLord]

It's human nature to try to play God.

So?

Let them play god. I see no problem with it, so long as they don't create anything that can seriously damage the world.

 

[andywg]

It's human nature to try to play God.

So?

Let them play god. I see no problem with it, so long as they don't create anything that can seriously damage the world.

Considering the immense pain and suffering in this world, I don't think we can make a much worse job of it than the last guy who tried

 

[Miss Wiggle]

I certainly should be allowed to live forever, other people perhaps less so

On a more serious note, the anemones don't appear to have any aging process, so we don't just get rid of death, we could potentially start to eradicate old age as well. Denying the possibility for great achievements in the future because of today's problems is not great scientific reasoning.

oh dear lord, if your stopping on this planet forever then i want off!!

For the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal life( spiritually). We all sin, so no matter what type of genetic modification you do, you will still die. Also, i am completely fine with glofish and i think they are pretty. They cross the line whejn you start to buy certain traits for your babies.

Only according to your belief structure

agreed

 

[OohFeeshy]

the fish are trademarked and patented. so yes if u were caught breeding and selling or even just giving people these fish you would be in big trouble.

For the second time, no, you wouldn't. If you actually asked them, the reply you'd get would be something like

TK-2 zebra fish
We have no comment if you want to share fry with your firends. However, it will invade our patent if you sell them in the market without our authorization.

thank you

AZOO

Funnily enough, it would be exactly like that, because that's what they actually did say when someone asked them.

 

[bluefire]

I think its very wrong to have a patent on a variety of fish.

I don't really agree with genetically altered fish being spread throughout the hobby, but artificial selection has been used to produce most of the fish in the hobby which is based on the same theory, just a longer process to genetic modification so its a hard situation to have a solid stance on.

 

[alessasavoca]

It's human nature to try to play God.

So?

Let them play god. I see no problem with it, so long as they don't create anything that can seriously damage the world.

The problem is, that yes today it is brightly coloured fish and glow in the dark fish, but tomorrow, someone could transfer that 'progress' into to the human gene pool.

and there's a difference between selective breeding to produce a different variety of the same breed and taking advatage of natural gene mutations than creating a mutant gene.

 

[OohFeeshy]

The problem is, that yes today it is brightly coloured fish and glow in the dark fish, but tomorrow, someone could transfer that 'progress' into to the human gene pool.

Now you're being silly. What would be the point? Other modifications maybe, to humans, other animals or plants, but tranferring the flouresence gene is silly. Although they've done similar things with other animals, which are pretty cool.

 

[alessasavoca]

The problem is, that yes today it is brightly coloured fish and glow in the dark fish, but tomorrow, someone could transfer that 'progress' into to the human gene pool.

Now you're being silly. What would be the point? Other modifications maybe, to humans, other animals or plants, but tranferring the flouresence gene is silly. Although they've done similar things with other animals, which are pretty cool.

i didnt mean flourecent humans ! Look at the bigger picture. Let's say they create a fish that can live for 60 years, it would be marketable for small children etc. . It's still genetically modified, and that is more useful isn't it?