Comments on: Who needs fathers? Who needs mothers?

By: cond0010

cond0010 — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:57:27 +0000

(*Scary for we poor malesâ€¦ *)

I’d like to think that we’d be missed by a certain percentage of the female population: at least for our entertainment value.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:40:42 +0000

“… embryos need genetic material from both a mother and a father to develop normally.”

Er, ah, not necessarily. Back when I was in school, circa 1960, a species of insects with no males was known. And about a year ago, a second such was found. Scary for we poor males…

By: Paul M

Paul M — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:48:14 +0000

O brave new world, that has such people in’t indeed.

This would also enable a single man or woman to provide both the sperm and eggs needed to create an embryo, so that a person could essentially mate with himself or herself.

Adding new practicality to the age old suggestion to “Go mate with yourself” (or words to that effect).

Science show us what we can do, not what we ought to do. Drawing a line between the two requires a communal maturity and wisdom that we pretty clearly don’t have. I suppose that’s why we always seem to be living in interesting times.

By: chsw

chsw — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:12:30 +0000

Two images immediately come to mind – Arnold Schwartzenegger pregnant with a baby and Gene Wilder from Young Frankenstein. However, this is the Brave New World, and I think that our grandchildren will rue the day when artificial eggs, sperm and wombs were invented and combined. Technology is amoral, and most of mankind today appears to have no conception of morality.

chsw