UM-Bot Posted October 12, 2013 #1 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Neuroscientists have come under fire over the ethics of their new remote control cockroach kits. Co-founders Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo of "Backyard Brains" raised eyebrows at a TEDx talk recently when they showcased a new piece of kit that could be implanted in to cockroaches to allow an operator to control their movement through an iPhone. Read More: http://www.unexplain...aches-unethical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted October 12, 2013 #2 Share Posted October 12, 2013 It's difficult to feel sorry for roaches. There are many beneficial and beautiful insects around the world, but there are also lice, fleas, tsetse flies, horse flies, house flies, mosquitos, and yes the ubiquitous cockroach. The spoilage of food they cause and the disease they spread no doubt causes much human illness. While we should not be cruel to animal life, it just seems that worry over the ethics of experimenting on insects is a bit ridiculous, most live just a few weeks and are driven purely by instinct. After all, we go through millions of lab mice and rats and they are at least "warm and fuzzy." And who knows, we may learn something in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted October 12, 2013 #3 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Creepy? Yes... Icky? Definitely.... Disgusting? Absolutely... Unethical?... Maybe, depends what they do with them and where the tech goes from there... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderOTD Posted October 12, 2013 #4 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Yes very unethical, much better to smash and gas them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equus hemionus Posted October 12, 2013 #5 Share Posted October 12, 2013 (edited) This just the first step in ultimate government control. Who said the government was ethical? Edited October 12, 2013 by equus hemionus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherialNight Posted October 12, 2013 #6 Share Posted October 12, 2013 That sounds cruel, even though I don't love roaches they are still living beings.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twin Posted October 12, 2013 #7 Share Posted October 12, 2013 (edited) Why don't people just rip the wings off flies, superglue a string leash to them and save $99? Of course it's unethical. Who even has to ask that question? Edited October 12, 2013 by Twin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderOTD Posted October 13, 2013 #8 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I find it strange how some people would have no qualm with gassing an entire population of these insects if they found a colony in their house. Taking a single that that colony considers an expendable subject, placing a computer chip on its head, is more unethical than wiping their whole family, or smashing the buggers when you see them with your shoe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chooky88 Posted October 13, 2013 #9 Share Posted October 13, 2013 It's a roach. I gave no problem with it. Sounds like fun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash68 Posted October 13, 2013 #10 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Love or loathe the roach you have to respect them,they've adapted to every environmental change and been around much longer than we have so who's the smartest? For me it's unethical as are all experiments on living creatures and actually serves no purpose in its current form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderOTD Posted October 13, 2013 #11 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Love or loathe the roach you have to respect them,they've adapted to every environmental change and been around much longer than we have so who's the smartest? For me it's unethical as are all experiments on living creatures and actually serves no purpose in its current form. Nobody is debating their ability to survive and adapt, but intelligence had nothing to do with their ability to survive, I would gather it was sheer numbers and their resiliency. How many mice are being used as test subjects in labs worldwide? Do you really think that the mouse population is having a decline in population because of our testing. Your last sentence is ridiculous. If it weren't for using animals as test subjects we wouldn't have advanced this far in medical science. Would you rather we use living people to test potentially dangerous drugs, treatments, and therapies? Either way, as they say, when we are gone, the roaches will still be here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varelse Posted October 13, 2013 #12 Share Posted October 13, 2013 First roaches. Then mice. Next, horses, cats and dogs. Last, human integration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skep B Posted October 13, 2013 #13 Share Posted October 13, 2013 If it eventually allows me to have a laser cannon able to shoot out of my chest, I'm good with this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted October 13, 2013 #14 Share Posted October 13, 2013 First roaches. Then mice. Next, horses, cats and dogs. Last, human integration. "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twin Posted October 13, 2013 #15 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I don't have a problem with killing a whole colony of roaches living uninvited in my house. But I find killing or mutilating them for entertainment unethical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumball Posted October 14, 2013 #16 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Maybe you could Peid piper there horrible asses right out the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 14, 2013 #17 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Cockroaches. I once lived in a house in Florida infested by those nasty creatures. And stayed in a few "roach motels" I don't mean this sarcastically, truely, but I wonder if they have any true value in the insect kingdom(or whatever it's called) Now bumble bee's, for example, I will do my best to not harm, but roaches are a different story for me. Maybe not for other's, that's fine. In any event, my opinion is that I see nothing wrong with "cyborging" a cockroach. Again, just my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xYlvax Posted October 14, 2013 #18 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I think it would be cool... I wouldn't go in houses, I'd want to explore underground and just see the world through the insect's eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassai26 Posted October 14, 2013 #19 Share Posted October 14, 2013 a new found way of voyeurism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeraldgemheart Posted October 14, 2013 #20 Share Posted October 14, 2013 This is.. ugh.. just... EW. I hate roaches.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chooky88 Posted October 17, 2013 #21 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I remember a 90s computer game Bad-Mojo where I was a roach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugoso Posted October 18, 2013 #22 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Love or loathe the roach you have to respect them,they've adapted to every environmental change and been around much longer than we ..... Totally agree. I have a lot of respect for cockroaches. They will be around a lot longer after we are gone too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sockitboy Posted October 19, 2013 #23 Share Posted October 19, 2013 howabout rigging up aa cyborg Keith Richards instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGelatin Posted October 20, 2013 #24 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I thought the "invention" of real cockroaches was unethical...- LoLzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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