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what do you think about the original purpose for the research, which was to increase the value of farmer's herds by making the rams more fecund?
by BooMan on Sun Dec 31st, 2006 at 10:16:28 AM EST
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I think it is total crap also.  There is a matter of natural selection in nature regardless of which species.  The i in 10 rams who did not mate mount females sounds like a natural selection process built into the sheep to keep them from over breeding.

Doing My Part For The Left
by refinish69 (refinish69 at gmail dot com) on Sun Dec 31st, 2006 at 10:32:22 AM EST
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so, do you think there is a moral principle being violated if farmers intervene to cut down on how many non-reproducing rams they have?

What if they identified a gene that caused low fertility in rams, and they came up with a gene therapy treatment that restored their fertility?

Would that violate the same moral principle, or a different principle?

I know these are pretty tough questions.

I don't have an answer for them.  

by BooMan on Sun Dec 31st, 2006 at 10:44:31 AM EST
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I have to say that I still think it is wrong.  The sheep are not reproducing for the sake of saving the breed but making cash for the farmer.  If you have a farm animal that is not "producing", you have a choice.  Turn it into a family pet or butcher it for meat. Sounds harsh but that is farming reality.    To me, it is the same princible.

Doing My Part For The Left
by refinish69 (refinish69 at gmail dot com) on Sun Dec 31st, 2006 at 11:05:49 AM EST
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"The sheep are not reproducing for the sake of saving the breed"

This idea -- that evolution commonly leads to individuals sacrificing reproductive potential for the group -- was popular among evolutionary biologists decades ago, but it turns out to be wrong. Altruistic behaviors are real, but don't exist for this reason.

This makes the rams more mysterious, of course. Perhaps they're proof that evolutionary biology is wrong after all, that gay rams are creations of an intelligent Designer. Quick, alert the fundies!

Words and ideas I offer here may be used freely and without attribution.

by technopolitical on Mon Jan 1st, 2007 at 04:01:06 PM EST
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which was to increase the value of farmer's herds by making the rams more fecund?

It's probably because I'm a liberal woman and thus overly sensitive to a politics in which self described 'moral' arbiters, secular and sectarian, take an unnatural interest in very personal aspects of my reproductive life but I'm deeply uncomfortable when folks start assuming the same tortured logic and dominion over humans that farmers assume over their livestock, so that's one problem.

The second problem is that with livestock there are always an overabundance of males and these are culled (killed) when they are very young. Likewise the technique of artificial insemination has been perfected and so I would question the stated rationale. If heterosexual males had the sense God gave the rest of us they would be alarmed too.

by the other colleen on Sun Dec 31st, 2006 at 12:52:26 PM EST
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